Adam Fleming

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15,775 appearances 133 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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Newscast · Is Energy About To Get Even More Expensive? · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

But I suppose though the reason it's so useful looking at America is is they've got the most evolved politics around this phenomenon, haven't they? matched

So in other words, this politics will probably be already getting exported to other bits of the world. matched

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Like the UK. matched

You can already see the the seeds of that here. matched

The dollar or whatever. matched

But I'm still amazed that the distance from the data center has an effect on all of that. matched

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And the argument in Brick Lane was, well, A, this is a weird place to put a data centre because it's restaurants and tattoo parlors and Spittlefields Market and cr craft. matched

Um and then the other argument was, well, hang on, wouldn't it be better to build some affordable housing or public housing here rather than a big expensive data centre? matched

back in is where the Secretary of State can say, actually we want this planning procedure to go ahead. matched

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I'm glad you said because I thought two weeks ago, Adam was thinking, oh, the big constraint on the development of AI in Britain is going to be matched

consent for building the data centers because you could see the discontent was brewing and brewing and brewing. matched

Now we're in a different world where the constraints on AI may come from the companies themselves because they're worried about killing us all. matched

But yeah, this is an amazing little insight into the the pincer movement on the on the technology. matched

gives the government more power to kind of like ram them through. matched

So uh the uh so y you know Or or the uh old political journalist in me thinks, does politics then create an incentive for the companies to just get rid of the hum? matched

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