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Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them | Arwa Mahdawi

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a markets story. The Guardian Business is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 3 Nov 2026, 16:58 UTC. The headline in use is “Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them | Arwa Mahdawi”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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These resource-guzzling centres drive up utility bills and are hated across the political spectrum. Cue a clunky, but potentially influential, new name for them Jesus may have turned water into wine, but Donald Trump has done one better: he turned Lake Ontario into Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico…
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Datacentres are deeply unpopular – so the geniuses at OpenAI are rebranding them | Arwa Mahdawi
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