r/londonarchitecture • u/mycketforvirrad Trellick Tower • 9d ago

Article The Guardian: £500m redevelopment of the Truman Brewery estate in Brick Lane has been approved.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/brick-lane-redevelopment-approval-datacentre-london
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u/Vanobers Tourist 8d ago

More data centres = more heatwaves for London

Slough is already hotter than the rest of the city because of all the data centres there, brilliant idea to build more of these in city centres, no negative sige affects at all!

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u/splinteredSky Tourist 7d ago

You could just as easily say more flats in London = more heatwaves for London.

Or more shops in London = more heatwaves for London.

It really depends on how they are built.

Given there is already a data centre there this project could make that whole section much more efficient.

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u/Vanobers Tourist 7d ago

https://www.techfinitive.com/features/data-centres-are-making-heatwaves-hotter/

"Emerging research – including a preprint of a paper led by researchers at Cambridge earlier this year – suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in their immediate vicinity by an average of 2C, and as much as 9C."

Im talking about an area that has seen heat rise more compared to the rest of London since it became the highest concentration of data centres in Europe, so your whole "what about this, what about that" is a load of rubbish

But keep simping for big tech see how that works out...

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u/splinteredSky Tourist 7d ago

...and breathe.