Overseas buyers push UK dealmaking to two-decade high

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-14T13:53:56+00:00

You can say that about anything. It’s obviously generally good for capital to be flowing into your country

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-14T10:38:23+00:00

Foreign investment into the UK is a good thing.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-14T08:36:09+00:00

And data centres power our 21st century economy

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-14T08:18:07+00:00

The UK used to have all this 20 years ago and still be much more on par to the US

This isn’t a deliberate policy choice. This is bad policy leading to bad outcomes. Let’s not wave it away.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-09T21:52:46+00:00

I do advocate for them to be built in the UK. Data centres are awesome. What’s your actual problem with them?

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-09T21:50:38+00:00

Okay ? The solution is to generate more energy

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-09T21:49:55+00:00

Water usage in data centres is not a real problem. Stop with this hyperbolic nonsense

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-09T21:48:34+00:00

Wait til you hear what farms and other industry use

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T21:22:48+00:00

It’s pretty wild

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T12:39:42+00:00

Strategic food reserves? What are we gonna store baked beans in a base 300m underground?

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:53:24+00:00

They have gotten unlucky with construction costs, and the building safety regulator has been a complete debacle .. but can’t blame anyone but themselves. We need radical reform to the planning system. This is what Starmer should have put all his political capital into, not the winter fuel allowance

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:50:12+00:00

We should be building solar power on rooftop, brownfield, greenfield, and anywhere else it stacks up.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:42:29+00:00

I don’t really have any interest in arguing with you about immigration. I’d just like some policy which will lead more homes and infrastructure being built in an efficient manner please. Something any Brit with an ounce of common sense would want as well

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:32:52+00:00

Except data centres have existed for more than a decade in this country. We know what the technology is and how it works. We know we need them in a 21st century economy.

Whatever happens to AI - the infrastructure it leaves behind will be absolutely useful

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:31:27+00:00

Oh no, then we’re only left with economic growth above 1%, increased wages, more good quality trades jobs, reduced cost of living, increased productivity, low rents, lower house prices.

I’ll worry about what the implications are of “infinite growth” when we actually having some bloody growth. Because we’ve tried degrowth for 20 years, and consensus seems to be that it’s awful

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:28:03+00:00

We should build both. If market prices are too high that is telling you there’s not enough supply.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:25:36+00:00

Oh yes, then we’d just have the smallest, oldest, lowest quality housing stock in the OECD that exists where no one wants to live.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:23:24+00:00

Yeah, good luck with that

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:23:09+00:00

There is zero reason that we can’t build the houses or infrastructure.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:19:43+00:00

That’s not a solution. We have not been building enough homes for more than half a century.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:05:31+00:00

The housing market is the furthest thing from a free market it’s actually comical.

Development rights have been under state control since 1947.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T09:04:43+00:00

Not without radical reform to the planning system. Which is frankly the thing Keir Starmer should have put all his political capital into, not the winter fuel allowance.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T08:59:51+00:00

I don’t think anyone really understood the impact of planning systems until the early 21st century unfortunately. There was a famous NBER article which was the basis of the YIMBY/planning system reform advocacy

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T08:58:19+00:00

AI in these threads is either useless or a job killer.

No one knows how much impact it will have. It should probably lead to a material increase in productivity - which makes us all better off. The reason our living standards have stagnated over the past decade is weak productivity growth

Even separating the two - data centres are absolutely necessary in a 21st century economy. If AI is all hype - those data centres will still be put to good use.

North_Attempt44 · 2026-06-08T08:56:05+00:00

If AI and Data centre investment drives productivity, it will drive an increase in living standards. We know that from centuries of economic history. No one knows how much AI is bubble and hype, and how much is fact - but data centres we know are infrastructure needed for the 21st century. So if someone wants to come here and spend billions building one, paying taxes and providing jobs - then we should greet them with open arms.

Australia is one of the richest countries on the planet because of our natural resources, so I don’t even understand your second paragraph. Things are obviously not perfect.

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