Proposed London datacentre would emit CO2 equal to 27,000 New York flights
Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
Assembled Person14Anyone who submits plans for a data centre without solar roofing; should be banned from working in planning and architecture for life. Any degrees they have should be rescinded; and any car they own crushed in front of them without any compensation. Video posted online for our amusement.
Chris at BOTR8Once again it's easy to see who's running the show. Corporations & their legions of advisors & influencers triumph over elected MP's on every crucial issue. We're being led by opportunistic pied pipers down the road to extinction as we persist with illusory economics, politics & beliefs!
welshprince.bsky.social3It's staggering what are politicians are doing....zero jobs and environmental disasters...leave these ai data centres in the US... #notodatacentres
Gergana3Drought, high electricity bills but building data centers! The humans are attempting suicide.
dabxdee.bsky.social1Data centers will only expedite the depletion of your water supply. The water wars are coming...
de-colonization.bsky.social1NO Future " CAPITALISM is #INCOMPATIBLE with LIFE on EARTH " -IPCC Let's #DESTROY work AND economy > REQUISITION True FASCISM is the POWER of this CONSUMER society -Pasolini #ABOLISH police/army & POLITICAL POWER and Parties > EMANCIPATION
Douglas Cheape94Remember folks, wash out your tin cans before placing them in the correct recycling bin.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈20it’s dunny when @lucympowell.bsky.social and her bestie andy burnham say they aren’t neoliberals anymore. they’re worse than tories. at least tories are honest.
Nelly Probin8Really? This as the countryside burns during the hottest summer on record and expected to be worse next year and in the future. #Green 💚
Harry McNally427,000 flights is just me and @atw1062.bsky.social summer holidays
alamkara4why is it proposed? can someone explain what the potential benefits for the public are vis-a-vis the enormous environmental AND social cost?
zyto3so why is this being let go then babycakes bsky.app/profile/theg...
Janey Salisbury3This idiocy really has to stop.
Bon. Jam Bon.3L’IA est une bulle financière en plus d’être une catastrophe environnementale.
Ed Jefferson2Im doing 27001 flights to New York a year. Grow up
anyone I know who lives in London needs to email their MP and the London Mayor the stats on this thing are genuinely appalling, and goes directly against the Mayor's commitment "for London to be net zero carbon by 2030" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈7you can email the mayor on [email protected] or send city hall a message through the form on their website: www.london.gov.uk/contact-or-v...
Somersetchris2Here is an idea - The UK Government must bring in legislation that the owners of each data centre must build 25% more renewable energy sources than will be needed to run a data centre. It also must build a reservoir for each data centre that will hold at least twice the water that data centre needs
“A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate…carbon footprint of 27,000 flights from London to New York…the campus would consume 2.65bn kWh per year of electricity, equivalent to the demand of more than 1m UK households.” 💯 unacceptable #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
John Wilks5These data centres should only be allowed if they generate their own renewable energy. Who owns them? How much tax will they pay? How much water will they take?
Rotorbabe Recordings2Everyone is talking about London. Why? thecritic.co.uk/why-devon-is...
James Steel2The PM better stop this immediately.
Vern Veitch 1952 AU1Is Australia watching? Electricity demand increase to that degree is not presently available in Australia, not to mention that we are the driest habitable region on the planet.
Somersetchris1Here is an idea - The UK Government must bring in legislation that the owners of each data centre must build 25% more renewable energy sources than will be needed to run a data centre. It also must build a reservoir for each data centre that will hold at least twice the water that data centre needs
Just who will benefit from this dangerous monstrosity? Not me, not you, not working people, not the climate, not nature Just mega-rich corporations and their billionaire owners I suppose it will be fun to trash the place when forecast collapse comes 😊 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Sandy Thomas 🏴🐕🌱🌏🐝🇪🇺3Why is this even being considered? Esp. as this region(and many other parts of the UK) is - and highly likely continue- experiencing drought. Meanwhile, Data Centres require vast amounts of water and, as Crtitical National Infrastructures, will have priority over domestic consumers (water/energy).
Old man Griffin1They are erected via secondary legislation, no parliamentary consent or oversight, as they are on the massive Special Economic Zones that a few have been warning about for nearly a decade. No democracy, no regulation.
Somersetchris1Here is an idea - The UK Government must bring in legislation that the owners of each data centre must build 25% more renewable energy sources than will be needed to run a data centre. It also must build a reservoir for each data centre that will hold at least twice the water that data centre needs
