Press cuttings
22 August
The Standard
How London quietly became Europe’s largest data centre market
Niva Yadav & Luke Reeves
19 August
The Guardian - Today in Focus
The people v the datacentre? The fight for Brick Lane - podcast
Eleanor Biggs, Annie Kelly
13 August
The Canary
Government ‘community power’ hypocrisy exposed over Brick Lane data centre
Cameron Baillie
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/08/12/brick-lane-data/
Tribune Magazine
Brick Lane Needs Social Housing, Not a Data Centre
Tasnima Uddin
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/brick-lane-data-centre
MyLondon
Brick Lane traders slam Angela Rayner over approval of £500m data centre development
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/brick-lane-traders-slam-angela-34431754
Véronique Hawksworth AI Content Editor and SWNS Jack Fifield
12 August
Building Design
The Old Truman Brewery taught me that great places can’t be rushed
Martyn Evans
The Canary
Green Party slams Labour’s ‘energy guzzling’ data centre decision
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/08/12/labour-energy-guzzling/
Willem Moore
11 August
Financial Times
Data centres vs housing: how London became a central battleground
Francesca Perry
11 August
Capacity Media
Brick Lane: How a single data centre beat unanimous local opposition
https://capacityglobal.com/news/brick-lane-data-centre/
10 August
LBC
Britain doesn't have to choose between building homes and data centres
Hugh McEvoy
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/britain-building-homes-data-centres-brick-lane-opinion-5Hjdfrp_2/
ITV London News
Carolyn Sim