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Proof: A proposal for a massive AI data centre ‘seemed pretty hard to stop’. This is how locals pulled it off

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256

0f070552cbf94eb8d2252de1fb246b315dec93631675b82ed192d3478e7ba540

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969644, mined 2026-10-02 23:07 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 22:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-0f070552cbf9.json prints 0f070552cbf94eb8d2252de1fb246b315dec93631675b82ed192d3478e7ba540. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-0f070552cbf9.json and headline-0f070552cbf9.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-0f070552cbf9.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.