Data centres as vital as NHS and power grid, government says

So I guess we're going to underfund them and treat the workers as mugs?

Much more vital because in the future people won’t be important

Datacentres are indeed shooting up all over the place at an astonishing rate. I know, I'm involved in them. However I don't think they need such protection from the government - the companies building them already have enough money (and the datacentres themselves make a ton of money) that they don't really need handouts.

Hard disagree. We can all survive without data centres. The transition from having them, to not having them is chaotic (as crowdstrike showed), but I think 99% of us would benefit from our financial / credit records being wiped out.