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Scotland "..there are 17 live planning applications for hyperscale data centres across the country, with more in the pipeline; enough to increase energy demand by 4,450-4,950 megawatts."
Scottish government face calls for data centre moratorium | Morning Star
https://www.

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.

"Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7en

'I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed'
"It's fantastic because it's eco-friendly...We're not burning any gases," says Terrence Bridges.

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…

bruges beer pipeline!
https://openinframap.org/#12.79/51.21257/3.2049/A,B,I,L
connecting city-centre and out-of-town sites belonging to the brouwerij de halve maan

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Matthew Reisman as Vice President of U.S. Policy
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-matthew-reisman-as-vice-president-of-u-s-policy/

Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.11.06-203144/https://www.afr.com/technology/google-plans-a-powerful-ai-data-centre-on-tiny-australian-outpost-20251107-p5n8fk

Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…

‘No more low-tier data centre approvals in Johor’
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.

British Home Office plans to immediately begin seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones and sim cards without the need for an arrest
have been condemned by a solicitor and anti-torture campaigners.
People who arrive by small boat and are sent to Manston processing centre in Kent will from Monday be eligible for searches for electronic devices, a minister has said,
with technology on site to download data.
Officials will be allowed to search inside the mouths of detainees…

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors).. #retronetworking #telecom

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…

Shares of Japanese optical fiber maker Fujikura are up ~171% YTD, outpacing the Nikkei's 22% and lifting its market cap to $33B amid the AI data center boom (Junko Fujita/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

"UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Water #Technology

Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/google-opens-new-ai-engin…