Hundreds attend Leeds protest against Microsoft data centre development 🤖❌ The ‘No Leeds Datacentre’ campaign group organised the rally, after more than 43,000 people signed a petition against the Stourton ‘data campus’. Planning was approved by the council in April 2026 for Microsoft to build three data centres and a warehouse across 48 acres of land, subject to the tech company meeting a number of conditions. The campaign group, who were joined on Saturday (12th September) by the likes of the