Can Big Tech save Northumberland?

Can Big Tech save Northumberland?

Blyth Power Station dominated my horizons as a kid. Quite literally, in fact, as I could see it from my bedroom window in the old pit village of New Hartley. It seems hard to believe now, but at bedtime my parents would encourage me — as if I was a child in a Soviet propaganda film — to say “night, night power station”. As schoolchildren, we were taken to visit the plant’s Moonraker-style control room — an attempt to steer our aspirations toward…