Opposition to data centres grows in cramped urban Japan
The more Yoriko Kitagawa learns of a massive data centre to be built near her home in Hino on the outskirts of Tokyo, the more she worries.
“This is a terrible plan,” the 94-year-old told AFP.
The explosion in resource-hungry data centres — housing the hardware “brains” of artificial intelligence — is fuelling unease worldwide, with New York State and Australia the latest jurisdictions to announce new rules.
