How is Google's £790m UK data centre forcing its neighbours to move out?

Google's £790 million data centre under construction in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, since January, seems to have created several issues for neighbours, according to an exclusive report by Daily Mail.

The project has been hailed as a vote of confidence for Britain by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and has created job opportunities in the area.

However, locals say they have been kept awake by construction noise and that the facility is ruining their once pleasant views.

An upset resident, Dionne Brown, 44, said: "Google can just come in and do what they want and nobody cares about us. There's no benefits to locals, other than ruining our views and noise all hours of the day."

She also believes the construction may have caused her and her child to fall sick.

Another man, who has lived opposite for 70 years, said: "If they are so committed to the environment, then why have they done this? Why not turn it into a vegetable field?"

Roger Sullivan, 44, said he was moving away because of the data centre.

The engineer said: 'It's a nightmare. It'll ruin our house prices. It was such an asset, a lovely green and pleasant land. Now it is all industry."

The facility is set to be the tech giant's first major data centre in the United Kingdom, and it will power services such as Maps and Cloud.