Reminder: the UK has been a preferred location for data centres for decades, we have more than any other country in Europe.
We built nearly 600 of them without you noticing, if you’re suddenly angry now then you’re just cattle, sorry.
Ben Thompson said it well. Every 10-15 years people relearn the same lesson. The only consumer business model is ads and you cannot charge consumers for software.
What's cool about this whole datacenter controversy is that if someone brings up water as an issue you then immediately know that they are clinically retarded
He had Steven Gerrard idolisation for the rest of his life in the palm of his hands. VVD captaincy successor and increasingly growing to have an aura of owning how Liverpool play (the PSG 2nd leg before injury was a great example). But he chucked it away for Beckham style glitz and glam (without being a national team hero). Now he’s getting benched for Denzel Dumfries.
TfL and the Government looked at this and thought
"Hmm. People want extensions to tube lines.
How about we give them painted buses that go 2mph instead?"
The way to win at capitalism is to focus on what it actually does (make customers' lives better) rather than the socialist caricature of it (squeeze every penny out of them). The latter gets you 2x returns at best, whereas making new things for people can get you 10x.
The far-left coming for the Guardian should be a signal to more moderate people on the centre-left that this movement is unhinged and that they need to stop talking about out the far-left as a fringe and actually stand up to them for once.
Just an extraordinary, abject policy failure on the part of the Australian government here. Just incredible / terrifying to watch them continue to double down. (Chart from @JDMayger piece here https://t.co/l9fO5eBHL1 )