Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land
Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in...
<p>Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility </p><p>The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire.</p><p>Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment was made for the 90MW datacentre, which was approved as part of the Labour government’s push to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai">turn the UK into an AI powerhouse</a> by <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-compute-roadmap/uk-compute-roadmap">trebling computing capacity</a> to meet rising demand amid what it terms “a global race” as AI usage takes off.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/angela-rayner-hit-with-legal-challenge-over-datacentre-on-green-belt-land">Continue reading...</a>
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