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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre.

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Plans for one of Europe's largest AI data campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve in north Devon have sparked a local backlash. The opposition follows a datacentre revolt spreading across the US.

Why it matters: Local resistance to large AI datacentre projects is spreading from the US to Europe, where this one is planned inside a Unesco-designated reserve.

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“Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an uprising against a planned hyperscale AI data…”
Guardian AI, 27 Sept 2026, 07:00.

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