AI companies are using Brexit 'freeports' to leech UK water supplies

AI companies are using Brexit 'freeports' to leech UK water supplies

This article is part of a series looking at the risks to the UK’s water security which are being amplified by our current Labour government. You can read the AI data centres Water Crisis series here. According to a recent report from a government advisory group, AI data centres and companies are taking advantage of lax regulations to leech unsustainable volumes of British water. We don’t know how unsustainable this state of affairs is, because c…