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When Angela Rayner overruled Tower Hamlets Council to approve a data centre on Brick Lane, it cancelled plans for hundreds of new homes in an area where 30,000 people are on the social housing waiting list. ​As activists point out, this isn't an isolated decision. From East London to...

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This is very alarming Housing developers are realizing that selling parcels to data center developers is far more profitable than building homes “AI data centers aren't just using electricity and water. They're using land previously planned for homes” - 55 homes were purchased for nearly $1 million per house and knocked down to build data centers outside of Chicago - Amazon paid $700 million for land so they could build a data center instead of homes - Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are spending more money on data centers than the US spent on railroads in the the interstate highway system in the 1950s, and more than the US spent on the Apollo space program States are choosing data centers over homes. There are real examples of this Northern Virginia is the center of this phenomenon known as Data Center Alley, even though the region has a shortage of more than 75,000 homes I found real devastating examples of this happening: Prince William County / Bristow, Virginia (Northern Virginia “Data Center Alley”) The homebuilder Steve Alloy’s company was preparing to develop 516 new homes when surrounding land was rapidly bought up by Microsoft, Google, and other data center operators instead. Nearby, the Village Place housing project entitled for 250 additional units had its land sold to a data center developer for $31 million Stanley Martin Homes Land Flip to Amazon, Prince William County, Virginia Residential homebuilder Stanley Martin Homes assembled 270 acres for about $51 million. They flipped most of it to Amazon for $700 million In Suburban Chicago Illinois. Stream Data Centers bought a 55 home subdivision for nearly $1 million per home, demolished the houses, and built a 2.1 million sq ft data center campus This must be stopped. We have starter home affordable crisis already

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Abbie Llewelyn, "Labour have accused the Greens of trying to block at least 42,000 homes being built, including 13,000 affordable homes" Zack Polanski, "Labour have hired a van with a big number on it, I don't know where they got it from" "Labour should be building the homes they promised rather than hiring vans outside Green party conferences" "There was a report yesterday that even the targets Labour set themselves, they are massively missing. If you set a target you should actually hit it" "We do have a housing crisis" "But what we also have is an affordability crisis" "It's about building the right homes, at the right price, at the right place" "What we see all too often with Labour councils is that they are building luxury unaffordable buildings" "They often knock down or destroy communities that are already there in the name of regeneration but don't replace the homes with affordable homes or council homes" "So I would reject the premise that the Greens are blocking any more developments than anyone else is" "But if a development is being blocked because it is an unaffordable luxury development, then I'm proud of any Green party council that does that" "We need to make sure that we are building the homes that people actually need, that are fit to live in, affordable and accessible" "And you only need to look at this Labour government where the Housing Secretary is going for curries with property developers for £2,000" "They are building homes based on vested interests" "They are building for profit" "As opposed to the actual housing needs that people have"

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