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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
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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 27 Sept 2026, 07:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
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 campus in the middle of a globally protected…
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
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