UK Greens call temporary ban on new data centres
Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.
Huw Jelly93Also we need to crush the gaslighting lie that data centres create jobs. They literally do the opposite.
Blueberry39 🫐51Temporary should be permanent. They screw the environment until there is nothing left
Elliot 50035Yes, I saw one is planned for Bristol and our Green council had better block this. I mean really. This cannot happen.
Peter Wilkin32The U.K. does not need them Yet Labour pushed for them, even though they will require lots of power and water , pollute , and won’t actually provide any real jobs Follow the money….
Headline Vibe · by NoMAGA24The key test should be simple: no approval without a binding plan for water use, electricity demand and who pays for the grid upgrades. “Digital” infrastructure still has very physical costs.
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪21Agreed. I also think there should be more focus and more information about the kinds of data these data centres will be handling. It's all so vague at the moment. Obviously, there's a difference between them searching for a cure for cancer, processing chatbots, or collecting mass-surveillance data.
Adrian Littlejohn105Drought can be expected to become the norm in future years in Britain Meanwhile fossil fuel extraction offshore will continue. So we'll be using fuels that damage the environment to power data centres that need water we haven't got. To keep big tech and big money happy. Does that make sense?
Stephen J.Reid20Unbelievable (well not really that unbelievable) that the government is putting the needs of these tech-bros toys before the needs of the local communities
#BruceSterling19*By now even data-center guys are like, "We have to get ahead of this curve and lead the charge against the other guy's data centers" "I call on ANTIFA data-centers to be repressed with the full majesty of the legal international order"
Charlie Jones7This will inevitably get framed as growth vs the environment. Which is a false binary ofc. It's much more a case of- it's time to respect the needs of the many, rather than being dictated to by the greed of the few.
Chris6if I have a server rack in my garage does that count as a data centre? How many servers does there need to be to make it a data centre?
Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸3They're dangerous on so many levels, some of which we would never have predicted. Case in point: futurism.com/health-medic...
therealoutpost.bsky.social2Permanent would’ve been better, but I’ll settle for temporary.
ClimbHighRay2Even as a user of AI I think Zack is correct. Their sustainability is super questionable!
Denimeyer2The main purpose of data centers are to manipulate people.
Pablo2These green people in the UK talk like Brown people in the US 👀
In a world that is short of water and energy it is madness to build hundreds of new data centres www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jukka Tapani12It is also important to keep in mind that although AI is currently offered freely to almost everyone, before long this service will also be turned into a profitable business; and then it will no longer benefit ordinary citizens in any way! Now, AI is freely offered for one reason only: to train AI.
Dr Caz 🌳🔶🇪🇺 🇺🇦2I’d say so But then I’m not in with any gazillionaires who want to control the world and control what the world thinks, as we dive headlong into a dystopian nightmare
James Steel2It absolutely is madness, which is why the government seem to be happy to sign them off and built all over the country. That bounce will very quickly deflate for the PM and the Labour Party.
Ren Zelen2They’re flouting federal laws in the US and vacuuming up water and energy from local populations, and that’s besides poisoning the environment. Don’t want that here, no sir!
God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO1I'd call for a PERMANENT ban!
Danny Fearns1Pretty much everyone is saying the same thing. But the tech bros don't seem to be listening... it would be nice to think they had our best interests at heart 😹
