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AI firms warn UK has one year to prevent datacentre protests from threatening construction
The Sovereign AI Leadership (SAIL) taskforce, an industry group including Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco, says Britain has roughly 12 months before US-style opposition to datacentres takes hold. It wants ministers to set up a "compact" with recommended local benefits, scaled to each site's size. Campaigners say the plan amounts to buying people off, and the government says community benefits are already weighed in local planning.
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