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AI hyperscaler's UK data center plans in question after legal challenge

By Frank Hersey ( August 21, 2025, 16:43 GMT | Insight) -- Plans for a “hyperscale” data center near the UK capital are in doubt, potentially hampering AI infrastructure development, due to a legal challenge against the government's approval of the proposed facility. It was approved via support from the deputy prime minister against the local council’s wishes and without an environmental impact assessment, campaigners raising the planning challenge has said.Plans for a “hyperscale” data center near the UK capital are in doubt, with the government facing a legal challenge over its approval of the proposed facility, in what the organizations behind the challenge call the first of its kind. ...

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