Lindsey German on AI run rampant and historic statal overreachOf all the things working-class Londoners need on their doorsteps, AI data centres must be pretty low on the list. Huge data centres are being built across the city, from Potters Bar on the Hertfordshire border to Southall – another working class and migrant area – and Park Royal in the west. The report states:A typical data centre now requires significant, concentrated power—sometimes equivalent to the needs of tens of thousands of homes. All this has prompted the Financial Times to headline a recent article ‘Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground’, which highlights the government prioritising of data centres is going to cost us all dear in many different ways. Expensive private housing is not being sold, because people can’t afford it.