Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
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G'bye fuck off etc
That’s sad, they would have helped the local community so much!
Yeah the eight jobs they would have brought would have really helped the local economy.
Data centres are not big employers, they require very specialist skills which are unlikely to be available in the local population and they don't need many of them.
I really hope this is sarcasm