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> Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.

Also the UK government:

> Taken together, the 50 measures will make the UK irresistible to AI firms looking to start, scale, or grow their business. It builds on recent progress in AI that saw £25 billion of new investment in data centres announced since the government took office last July.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-b...

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I'm surprised anyone wants to put a data center in the UK given our top of the range electricity costs.

When George Orwell wrote 1984 it wasn’t just the Soviet Union he was criticizing.

He was also satirizing some of the most absurd parts of British political culture too. Doublethink wasn’t just part of Soviet political culture. It was part of British political culture and clearly still is based on what you just posted.

I imagine he was probably still pretty salty about the whole Gollancz/Homage to Catalonia thing.

There's a reason 1984, V for Vendetta and all such stories come from the UK.

Soviet doublethink?

Is this holding two ideas in your head at the same time, or holding contradictory ideas in your head at the same time?

I heard Russel Brand once say something like the mark of an intelligent man is the ability to hold two conflicting ideas. And then I remembered his first TV job as Big Brother's Big Mouth!

However, holding two conflicting ideas and not even realising the contradictions is a mark of a brainwashed individual.

That’s a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/05/intelligence/

Nevermind water, there were (still are?) restrictions on new builds in the West London area because the grid could not cope due to the ever increasing number of data centres popping up in old trading estates.

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