{"id":1029912,"date":"2026-08-20T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029912"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:16:27","slug":"europe-ai-data-centres-seek-cheaper-quicker-energy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/europe-ai-data-centres-seek-cheaper-quicker-energy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe AI data centres seek cheaper, quicker energy &amp; land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Europe&#8217;s developers of data centres for artificial intelligence are seeking out less traditional locations away from \u200bmajor cities, where they can benefit from cheaper energy \u200band land and quicker connection times, data analysis seen by Reuters shows. <\/p>\n<p>The trend can mean investment in \u200bunderprivileged areas where governments are trying to stimulate jobs and growth, but the developers also risk opposition from residents concerned about dwindling natural habitats and competition for power and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Europe&#8217;s developers of data centres for artificial intelligence are seeking out less traditional locations away from \u200bmajor cities, where they can benefit from cheaper energy \u200band land and quicker connection times, data analysis seen by Reuters shows. The trend can mean investment in \u200bunderprivileged areas where governments are trying to stimulate jobs and growth, but the developers also risk opposition from residents concerned about dwindling natural habitats and competition for power and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029936,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029912\/revisions\/1029936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}