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When the bubble bursts, there must be no bailout. Fuck'em all!
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d agoAfter years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We can't let them get away with it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Brilliant description of the threat of AI data centres in our communities. Using up scarce resources and enriching the billionaires. *Say No to Larbert Data Centre*. www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/07/30/m...
More than 8,600 back call to halt new Scottish AI data centres
More than 8,600 people have signed a petition calling for a halt to planning approvals for huge new AI data centres in Scotland.
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Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 2d agoAfter years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We can't let them get away with it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Data centres here in Ireland accounted for nearly a quarter of all electricity usage last year (a FIVE-fold increase in ten years)! AND these companies get a discounted electricity rate which is subsidised by us ordinary domestic users 😡 www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Data centres account for 23% of electricity usage - CSO
The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025 up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.
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After years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We can't let them get away with it. substack.com/home/post/p-...
‘The market’ didn’t decide that AI would be our future. Capital did. And when the devastating consequences of their decisions become clear, capital must be made to pay. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centr...
Data Centres and Democracy
The AI boom was planned by capital. When it collapses, capital must be made to pay.
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“You might be thinking, ‘So what if demand increases slow a bit? Over the long-run, AI is going to revolutionise everything!’ This might be true - it was certainly true of the internet. But the dot-com bubble still burst.” - @graceblakeley.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Timing Is Everything in the AI Bubble
This week's tech sell-off is a symptom of a deeper problem: no one knows when - or how - big tech's $1 trillion bet on AI is going to pay off.
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"AI is going to revolutionise global capitalism - how can it be a bubble?" In this piece, I explain why both can be true at once: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Timing Is Everything in the AI Bubble
This week's tech sell-off is a symptom of a deeper problem: no one knows when - or how - big tech's $1 trillion bet on AI is going to pay off.
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"Contrary to what its adherents claim, market ideology isn’t about creating free markets to boost efficiency; it’s about breaking up collective power and replacing it with individualism and competition." Lukusuositus.
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 6d ago"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...
This piece is a few weeks old. But @graceblakeley.substack.com talks about cartel parties and how that relates to Labour. I would challenge my American friends to think about this re: the Democrats. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-labour...
The Labour machine always wins
Keir Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Andy Burnham's turn.
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Reading this one from @graceblakeley.substack.com, I'm reminded of a few things: The laughable idea in America that we are a society that doesn't have a class focus. That's the wolf in sheep's clothing. Also, we don't hate Thatcher and Reagan enough. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/capitalism...
Moral Imperialism versus Class Solidarity
Individualism and imperialism define ruling class morality. Solidarity is the left's only answer.
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I am hoping for the same left turn in Sweden this fall. The Swedish social democrats @socialdemokraterna.bsky.social really needs to take a stand for socialism. They won't do it on their own, so the electorate will need to convince them that it is the only way to stay relevant.
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 6d ago"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, the government formed by Denmark’s Social Democrats turned out not to be as progressive as many imagined. It did little to transform the economy and redistribute wealth, but its anti-migrant rhetoric strengthened the case for the far right.”
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 6d ago"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...
"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...
Rise of the Danish Left
Tribune’s Grace Blakeley speaks to Pelle Dragsted, spokesperson for Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance, about building socialist power in the 2020s.
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The Roundup Podcast #38: Trump's forever war; how pro-Palestine protests exposed the lies at the heart of western democracy; and how capital hollows out our cities. Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-... Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheRoundupPo...
The Roundup Podcast #38
Trump's forever war; how pro-Palestine protests exposed the lies at the heart of western democracy; and how capital hollows out our cities.
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Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future - @graceblakeley.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Locals built the landscape. Now, they want a stake in its future.
In the slate valleys of north Wales, a group of community organisers, councillors and researchers are taking on one of the region’s most powerful companies – and taking back control of their place.
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Trump's approval on the economy is 33%. His response is to claim the affordability crisis is fake news. These lies might have worked when he was fighting a culture war. But no amount of bluster and deceit is going to convince people that their bills haven’t gone up. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Trump's Forever War
The President is trapped between an affordability crisis he denies, and a conflict he cannot escape.
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So this happened… Ofwat for once not completely abject in the face of vulture capitalism @weownit.org.uk @graceblakeley.substack.com @labourlewis.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social
Thames rescue: Creditors revising £10bn deal after Ofwat kicks back - Utility Week
Thames Water’s creditors have been sent back to drawing board on the proposed £10 billion rescue deal after Ofwat said it "shared" the government’s concerns about its details. The London & Valley Wate...
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Grace's article was written about British Labour but it applies equally to Australian Labor. Of course the ALP will bend over backwards to the big tech cartels and try and tell us that it's in our best interests. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #AusPol
Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment
PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech
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Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last mo.For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants whose interests directly oppose those of the majority. Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Burnham's turn. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
"Whether it’s the cartoon super-villainy of Alex Karp, the lies of Sam Altman, or the Hitler worship of Elon Musk, the mask is off and the psychotic personalities behind these companies have been revealed for all to see." Great new guest post from Ryan Ward open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
What you hate about AI is the capitalism
AI pulls the curtain back on the extractive logic that orders our lives
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Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.
New pod is - finally - up! Unsustainable capitalism: from the AI bubble to super El Niño. Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-... Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheRoundupPo...
The Roundup Podcast #36
Unsustainable capitalism: from the AI bubble to super El Niño.
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Two books worth reading. Came out right when we needed them, and still couldn’t help us see what was coming. @quinnslobodian.com @graceblakeley.substack.com
So-called 'artificial intelligence' is a big con, a huge scam. We don't need it. In fact if we let them build their fake 'data centres' we will harm ourselves even more.
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last mo.The bust is coming. The rich will offload their assets at the peak of the bubble - and pension funds and retail investors will buy them. Millions of peoples' savings will be wiped out. The wealthy will walk away with billions graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
„The left should pay attention. The language we use has fast become an identity marker that separates us from the majority of people, rather than a tool for breaking down barriers and building a movement.“
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · 4w ago"I cannot picture a ‘post-neoliberal society rooted in fairness.’ But tell me that I could wake up each day and hear birds outside my window again, and that I can cycle safely to work on clearly-marked bike lanes." New guest post from @casshebron.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
"I cannot picture a ‘post-neoliberal society rooted in fairness.’ But tell me that I could wake up each day and hear birds outside my window again, and that I can cycle safely to work on clearly-marked bike lanes." New guest post from @casshebron.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The left needs to cut jargon to build power
Our language is alienating the people we should be recruiting.
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This post has prompted an amazing amount of discussion. I hope it prompts some book sales too… 😅
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last mo."The disasters we are facing can be traced back to the assumption that competition is natural and the optimal basis for a society – an assumption often attributed to Charles Darwin. That assumption is false." Great new guest post from @rowhoop.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
The bust is coming. The rich will offload their assets at the peak of the bubble - and pension funds and retail investors will buy them. Millions of peoples' savings will be wiped out. The wealthy will walk away with billions graceblakeley.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
This is what a bubble looks like 🫧
The AI bubble continues - but under the surface, signs of strain are beginning to show.
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"The disasters we are facing can be traced back to the assumption that competition is natural and the optimal basis for a society – an assumption often attributed to Charles Darwin. That assumption is false." Great new guest post from @rowhoop.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
Darwinism does not support capitalism
Darwin described the webs of connectedness that support all life, and economists need to understand that their discipline grows out of ecology
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Some staggering stats in this clip. We are animals, we live in nature, we can’t survive without it…no matter what the rich try and tell us. Will said @graceblakeley.substack.com
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last mo.Humanity isn't separate from nature - so let’s stop acting like it 🌍 💚