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Vast #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

"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."

Government have already rejected this petition. Now needs 100,000 to trigger a debate. Please sign and share: #Datacentres

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

Government have already rejected this petition. Now needs 100,000 to trigger a debate. Please sign and share: #DataCentres

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/776949

PLANS REFUSED ⛔

A Data Centre Development application that was approved by #Mayo County council has now been refused by An Coimisiún Pleanála following an appeal.

Details here: app.buildinginfo.com/p-N3UxZA==-

#buildinginfo #datacentres #datacentre #jobs #constructionnews

“ #BigTech companies are rapidly expanding their use of #guarantees to back debt for #AI #datacentres and #chips, issuing up to $300bn in commitments in less than a year while recording little of that exposure on their #balancesheets” adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-...

Has anybody stopped to think about the ethics of #datacentres being used to mine #bitcoin?

It is equivalent of transferring entire economies into virtual monopoly money in a game played only by billionaires?

#economics #ethics

A question on #DataCentres #Water tabled by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb on 09-09-2026 has been answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-09/HL3326

Once again, people ought to see the film #Snowden If you're going to 'monitor everything' you're going to need those massive #DataCentres listening, filtering, isolating, interpreting threats & directly targeting resources deployment to nullify threats. Where does that end? Does paranoia end if fed?

'Data is shunted around data centres in the form of electrons, which travel efficiently in copper wiring.
Many think there's an even better way of doing that, using light in the form of photons.'

#DataCentres #FibreOptics

India Tells Microsoft Where to Put the Building

Three governments, one month, all reaching for electricity as the lever. Two to restrain. India to steer.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/india-microsoft-power-siting.html #DataCentres

"All these new #DataCentres for these #BigTech behemoths, all of them effectively saying 'we could not possibly use #RenewableEnergy. We could not use this #AI data centre boom to fund and actually create the #EnergyTransition. It MUST be the old, world burning stuff.' It blows my mind regularly."