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The Data Centre Story Just Went from Zero to Everywhere on AI2Day
In one week our coverage of AI's power and land problem jumped from one story to six, across three separate outlets. Here is what that shape actually tells us, and what would prove it real.
UK telecoms are too slow for the AI era, warn industry bosses
Planning hold-ups and patchy 5G coverage could leave Britain trailing the US, China and Europe in handling the flood of data that AI demands.
Sainsbury's pauses face-scanning AI after it wrongly accused a shopper of theft
Matt Arnold, 46, was ejected from a Sainsbury's store after its facial-recognition system misidentified him as a shoplifter. The supermarket has now paused the technology at that location while it investigates.
UK Children Are Reporting Explicit Deepfakes of Themselves at Record Rates
A service that helps young people remove intimate images from the internet says digitally faked content, including AI-generated nudity, is rising sharply. Experts warn the tools making it possible are only getting easier to find.
British Gas says customers prefer chatbots. A reader says: that's because you made calling nearly impossible.
Centrica's chief executive claims nine in ten customers choose digital channels over a phone call. A letter writer argues the company's own call barriers are driving that number, not genuine preference.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away in industrial estates and on the edges of towns. The people living nearby are starting to talk about what that means for their daily lives.
UK water industry says the country cannot supply enough water for its AI datacentre ambitions
Cooling a server farm drinks enormous amounts of water. Britain's water trade body says the government has not reckoned with that, and the AI growth plan has a fatal flaw baked in.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras: The Fashion Trend Born From Facial Recognition Fears
A new wave of designers is weaving patterns into jackets and tops that are built to trip up facial recognition software. Could anti-surveillance fashion go mainstream?