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Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital

With an estimated 40 facilities packed tightly together in the town, local people say their quality of life is being ruined by strange and unsettling noise pollution. Brenna Spain reports

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Philippa Perry: Feeling guilty about going on holiday? Of course. But you should go anyway

There is more suffering and crisis on a burning planet than is possible for one person to process. It’s better for you, and everyone who needs you, to take a break sometimes, writes our cultural agony aunt

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Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see

The intelligence services now believe nature collapse is a security threat. For a cabinet determined to sacrifice the environment for growth, was that too uncomfortable a truth, asks the former Green party leader

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Natasha Walter: We’ve gone from climate denial to something worse – climate fatalism

The message in the western media, as global heating becomes undeniable, seems now to be that nothing can be done. That is unacceptable – especially for those in developing countries who are suffering so greatly from the crisis we created

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We’re being asked to save two buckets of water a day. Meanwhile data centres drink a town’s worth

England is heading for a 5bn-litre daily water shortfall by 2055 – so why is the government fast-tracking one of the most water-hungry industries there is, and letting it keep its consumption private, asks campaigner Adele Walton

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The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of homes

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie

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Shattered windows, broken rules ... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency

In the latest blow to draconian restraints on the right to protest, six doctors and nurses linked to Extinction Rebellion were dramatically acquitted last week. A play about their trial aims to shine a light on a barely publicised case. Claire Armitstead tells their story

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'A solid line-up of truth-tellers': Grok bot provides climate denial content to 'user' it believes to be anti-science

EXCLUSIVE: New Global Witness report shows Elon Musk's bot and ChatGPT giving inconsistent responses to differing 'personas' designed by researchers, with Grok providing false information and climate conspiracies in line with user's apparent beliefs

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