Slough datacentre hub leaves town sweltering, study finds

🙄 Why is the human race soooo stupid...? #RejectAI #DeletCoPilot #PitchforksAgainstDatacentres🧑‍🌾 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Come LLMs to roost in Slough and boil up all the humans now with endless slop us all endow. Hyperscale it, Death! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Datacentre heat island effect in a heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering With all the datacentre building going on around the M25 around London there are huge questions. Electricity supply […]

Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Research on (current) datacentres shows concern for larger facilities well-founded: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Sites like Slough, which is widely reported to have roughly a gigawatt of datacentres, are of a different scale, and with potentially far greater effects." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

come, friendly bombs, and fall on slough! it's full of datacentres now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#DataCentres #HeatWave "The closest weather station to the tech park, several blocks away, saw a high temperature of 36.7C that day and 36.5C the day before; other weather stations in Slough and the surrounding area were cooler, at times by several degrees." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Using up scarce water, heating the surrounding area and contributing to climate change! Why TF are these being allowed in our communities?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Of course but when you’ve got a multi story hectare of high end AI computers going full throttle and constantly giving off heat, the the datacentre is the island. Combine it with multiple (dozens) of datacentres …

We have machines creating 'art' while we humans still have to do the chores. And we're making sure the machines have lovely air conditioning while they ensure that we fry. Who is in charge here? Come friendly bombs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...