“A pause on building new datacenters would simply send investment and good jobs abroad, while leaving Britain dependent on overseas computing for the processing of sensitive health and defense data.”
27 million people in England are under drought restrictions right now. A single large datacenter drinks 1.5 million liters a day, which is a town of 10,000. Critical national infrastructure status means the server farm gets the water first and the households get the hosepipe ban. The government answer is that jobs will flee, which is the same answer every government gives to every question about anything.