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"In the middle distance, the increasingly gigantic datacentres whirred on, and I thought of a few lines from another of John Betjeman’s poems: “And over all the land, instead of trees / Clean poles and wire will whisper in the breeze / We’ll keep one ancient village just to show / What England once was when the times were slow.” #AI #DataCentres #UKPolitics As AI guzzles water and energy, we are already facing a choice: datacentres or homes? | John Harris | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/slough-famous-the-office-datacentres-locals-hub-europe