#SnoutTheCon 🐽 #ShoebridgeMethod ⚖️
#DataCentres #DTRS #VictorianGovernment #PublicMoney #Transparency #DigitalInfrastructure #Accountability
@kavienna.bsky.social
@kavienna.bsky.social
@ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social
@varylt.bsky.social"These costs are not just in the form of energy and water use, or inflated household bills, but the opportunity costs involved as alternative, socially necessary and climate resilient development pathways are foreclosed."
#datacentres
@irishphilosophy.bsky.social(From longer thread)
Timely Ireland-focused paper from MUSSI @maynoothuniversity.ie on "How we all pay for Big Tech".
Same creative use of data is used elsewhere so worth reading.
@dfertl.bsky.social"Government report on #datacentres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims…nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created…if the resources used expanding data centres were directed elsewhere"
#SpéirGhorm #housing #Ireland
www.thejournal.ie/government-d...
@mu-ssi.bsky.socialNew report: How We All Pay for Big Tech examines the economic, social and environmental costs of data centre expansion in Ireland.
By Seán Fearon, @pbresnihan.bsky.social & Patrick Brodie.
Read more:
bit.ly/4jlJ5ak
#DataCentres #Research #Energy #DigitalInfrastructure
@susiarnott.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gyFab teaching resources from
http://www.climatestorieslibrary.com/teaching - just seen this on #datacentres
@climatestorieslib
@shazbear.bsky.social
@philildo.bsky.socialSteve Hare, boss of SAGE: 'I don't really see why we need data centres all over the UK. They're just big sheds full of computers..[which] can be based anywhere...The UK doesn't have the capability to be a sovereign AI nation'
Therefore, there's no evidence that #DataCentres are NSIs!
@philildo.bsky.social#R4Today asking if there's any more 'happy news' 4 us from biz news, after the boss of UK tech firm says there's no need 4 the UK 2 build #DataCentres + shouldn't build sovereign AI - as if that's a bad thing
Bloody great news since it throws into doubt 'nationally significant infrastructure' claim
@philildo.bsky.socialIt's already past time to #BoycottAI, to put controls on developers.
No more #DataCentres
The technology is racing away from any control. 90% humans don't need it.
Keep the 10% which might be genuinely helpful in medicine
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
@yeandel.bsky.socialSixty-Two Generators, No Permit
Inspectors saw none in December. In July they counted 62, roughly 120MW of unpermitted plant on site.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/vineland-62-generators-fine.html #DataCentres
@killbaitcanada.bsky.socialNova Scotia Premier Tim Houston Adjusts Position on Data Centre Development
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
#datacentres #energypolicy #government
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@viking3.bsky.social
@calgaryclimatehub.ca
@richardashwell.bsky.socialVast #DataCentres are using up massive amounts of resources and disrupting local communities. And the government doesn’t have a plan for how to deal with them.
Tell the government to get a grip on data centres. @friends-earth.bsky.social
foe.uk/38h0y #water #energy
@calgaryclimatehub.ca"When they're selling these #AI #DataCentres, they're not talking about the #NaturalGas wells that need to be drilled to support this or the water that's going into #fracking wells for that natural gas. #Meta is being a face for the #FossilFuels industry, as are the other tech bros in this effort."
@shazbear.bsky.social
@strangetown.bsky.socialGovernment have already rejected this petition. Now needs 100,000 to trigger a debate. Please sign and share: #Datacentres