Hot and Humming · Tend and Flow

A young couple talk to an estate agent who is trying to convince them that the huge data centre next door is a good thing

Background

In the midst of a UK heatwave, I continue to read news reports that data centres raise the surrounding temperature (heat islands) and also emit a humming noise. Together with the political battles about planning permissions between local communities and national government, this is a global mess. I don’t want to live next door to a hot and humming data centre, and neither do you. So how do we get this back onto a sensible, long-term, sustainable development path?

(This is my original thinking, developed and produced with AI support from Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Google Nano Banana 2)