Madeleine Finlay
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2,527 appearances
37 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What is it about Scotland that makes it a good location for these things?
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And so what are the main reasons that people are opposing this?
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You said hyperscale, so I'm getting a feel for the fact that these are gonna be pretty big.
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And what's happening in Scotland certainly isn't an isolated case.
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There's growing backlash against these data centers really around the world, isn't there?
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And at the heart of that fury, there are all the different reasons why if you are living near a data center, you might not want that there.
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And first, I want to talk about the experience of living near a data center because I've seen videos online, first off, of people talking about how noisy they are or the kind of constant noise that comes from them.
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And on the point of electricity, one of the things that I was reading about was some of the data centers having to build their own energy infrastructure alongside the data center so that they would have enough.
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And that point about the environmental impact, this is one of the reasons why data centers are so unpopular.
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I mean, recently our colleague, environment reporter Pippa Neal, revealed that two data centers in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire might have the carbon footprint of fossil fuel company ExxonMobil over a year in the UK.
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I mean, that's yes, that's so shocking.
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And I think a big point about that is that this is a choice that we're actively making when so many of us are kind of, you know, in the here in the UK we've had a drought, we're kind of looking towards the future and thinking, gosh, we really need to take some action.
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And a choice to make a data center seems like going in the opposite direction.
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Well, Aisha, I did want to ask about this.
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I mean, we know the UK government has designated data centers critical national infrastructure, whatever that means.
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So they obviously are keen to push ahead.
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Are there any obvious levers that people can pull to try and stop a data center being built in their backyard?
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Coming up, could the backlash to data centres put the brakes on AI?
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Now, we've obviously been talking through the reasons why you wouldn't want an AI data center, but are there reasons why you would want one?
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I mean, why are these being pushed forward?
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