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Steve Jones cartoons AI datacentres’ tradeoffs
Sep 12, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, datacentre decisions harden the foundation: whoever controls power and cooling sets the tempo of the next phase transition.
A Guardian cartoon frames AI datacentres as both enabling and costly. The signal is about physical capacity being built faster than governance can metabolize it.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.