What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A group of 100 Leeds residents have formed an action group to oppose Microsoft’s construction of three Hyperscale AI Datacentre buildings in Stourton. The site is situated next to TCV’s Skelton Grange Environment Centre, just one mile from the largest sustainable development in the UK, Leeds’ Climate Innovation District. South
Computer firm Microsoft is set to be given the go-ahead to build a data centre on the site of a former power station. Jobs could be created if the company is given approval for the redevelopment of the Skelton Grange site in Stourton. Microsoft said the facility would boost the
Microsoft’s plans to build a data centre at Stourton will no doubt be good for the local economy creating both construction and operating jobs. We all use the internet everyday and we need to infrastructure that allows us to do that. But … I do have my reservations. The massive
A planning application has been submitted by Microsoft to build a data centre on the site of the former Skelton Grange power station in Stourton. Data Centres house ranks of servers (computers) providing computer power and storage for ‘the cloud’ and for artificial intelligence operations. They require large quantities of
Microsoft has bought 48 acres of land at the former Skelton Grange power station in Stourton and plan to build a ‘hyperscale’ data centre in a deal worth £106.6 million. The land has been sold by Harworth Group who bought the site ten years ago and have remediated the contaminated
Our friends at Holbeck Elderly Aid have produced their latest summer newletter. Included amongst all the latest information about the organisation there’s a timely warning about a telephone scam which some older people in the area have reported. Holbeck Elderly Aid have asked their members to be aware of calls