Thanks for this really insightful article George CCS is a fossil fuel stitch-up - now with data centres. More data centres ⏩ more gas+CCS ⏩ more LNG ⏩ more methane ⏩ more heat🔥 Burnham has a chance to stop this spiralling - data centre moratorium, move CCS funding to green economy, no Rosebank

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My story for @theecologist.org reports on Environment Agency research showing UK #datacentre hybrid cooling systems drive surges in water use in hot weather theecologist.org/2026/jun/29/... @watershed-i.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social

Data centres cooling drives heatwave demand

Seasonal spikes in data centre water use pose a risk to water-stressed regions, despite tech industry claims, Environment Agency analysis shows

theecologist.org

No good reason this billionaire shouldn't pay the same taxes as anyone else would...

Tax Justice UK@taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · last mo.

🎺For the 1st time ever, a reigning monarch has published their tax accounts… Well, some of them. 👀 Despite the fanfare, this is only 1/3 of the story. But as our very own Joe Wright made clear on Sky News its enough to confirm what we already knew: taxes work differently for the rich & powerful.

UN Sec Gen Guterres calls out massive land, water and energy use of AI data centres, launching his "AI Environmental Transparency Initiative". That's the opposite approach to the EU, which copy-pasted Microsoft's demands against environmental transparency. www.un.org/sg/en/conten...

Secretary-General's special address at London Climate Action Week [as delivered]

Dear friends, All protocols observed.Thank you for your warm welcome – and Michael Bloomberg, thank you for your kind words – and for your longstanding and outstanding leadership on climate action. Yo...

un.org

"I am calling on every major AI company to measure and publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems" UN Sec. Gen Antonio Guterres backs @globalactionplan.bsky.social's call for transparency on data centres' env. footprint. Add your name: globalactionplan.org.uk/big-tech/cli...

Worried AI and data centre expansion is a threat to our climate? Join us! This is Not Inevitable: Standing up to AI and Big Tech actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... 27 June, Manchester Speakers inc @owenespley.bsky.social of @globalactionplan.bsky.social & Mary Stevens @friends-earth.bsky.social

1/3 "This is not inevitable" if we realise the power we have to shape the future! Delighted to be returning to Manchester, the mother city of the C19 industrial revolution and the resistance to it, to talk, in the very building the Trades Union Congress was founded... #AINotInevitable

.@ketanjoshi.co is right: this isn't a consequence of us being more digital, it's a result of us letting big tech race to build AI whatever the consequences. #stopdirtydatacentres

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

Today we joined Save Brick Lane, Pull the Plug and Nijjor Manush outside the SXSW festival at the Truman brewery to say #StopDirtyDataCentres.

"at least £325 billion of dirty money from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade & tax dodging flows through the UK every year...equivalent to more than 10% of UK GDP. When the UK’s Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories...are included = more than £788 billion annually"

ICYMI EU's environmental agency @eea.europa.eu expresses grave concerns about failure of data centres to be transparent on electricity and water use These polluters are trying to prevent to publish data as @investigate-europe.eu revealed www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/big-te... @corporateeurope.org

Artificial intelligence and sustainable consumption in Europe

This briefing outlines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to shape sustainable consumption in Europe, with a particular focus on its implications for achieving climate neutrality.

eea.europa.eu

"Anti-datacenter organizing is... centered on an industry choke point that people can reach out and touch... isn’t just about limiting local development – it represents a critical new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #StopDirtyDataCentres

The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

theguardian.com

Just three UK data centres will account for more than 1% of the UK’s carbon budget by 2033. It’s like building several international airports. No wonder they’re lying about it. We’ve got to stop this madness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

theguardian.com

“Different groups are waking up and realising that there’s big questions [that] need to be asked about data centres"...said Espley #StopDirtyDataCentres www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2026/05/oppo...

‘I am so proud’: Beau Greaves makes history as first woman to win PDC ranking title

‘I am so proud’: Beau Greaves makes history as first woman to win PDC ranking title

* Greaves triumphs at Players Championship * ‘I never thought I’d win one of these. Never’ Beau Greaves has made darts history by becoming the first woman to win a PDC ranking title. The 22-year-old beat three former world champions at the Players Championship in Milton Keynes, seeing off Rob Cross, Gary Anderson and Michael Smith. Greaves completed a nailbiting 8-7 victory over Smith in the final with a stunning 142 checkout. She said: “I can’t believe it. I was up a fair few legs and I started to think about it. It caught up with me. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

My colleague @TimBierley on the Government’s admission that AI emissions could be 100 times greater than they initially predicted: “With this quiet release the government has finally admitted that AI data centres are a climate catastrophe” www.politico.eu/article/uk-i...

UK quietly increases AI emissions forecast 100-fold

The new figures are incompatible with the government’s green targets, campaigners say.

politico.eu

Data centres are draining local water supplies and driving up energy bills - all to power big tech's infrastructure. But communities are fighting back. We’re discussing how to resist data centres. #ResistingBigTech

🎙️We're live! Resisting Big Tech Empires starts now. Today we're asking who controls the technology that runs our lives, and how we take it back. We've got the writers, researchers and activists who are already fighting that fight. Watch along >> youtube.com/live/EnsBDeW... #ResistingBigTech

Packed room for opening plenary @globaljusticenow.bsky.social Resisting Big Tech Empires conference. Come join our data centre workshop at 13:45 in the annex #StopDirtyDataCentres

New research estimates that 84% of proposed data centres are located in areas that are already water stressed or face imminent risks to water supply. Join us in calling on the Government for a moratorium on AI data centre construction. Add your name: globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Want to double your support to #StopDirtyDataCentres? This Earth Day, @biggive.bsky.social are matching every donation we receive to help us fight back against Big Tech’s AI data centres being built at the expense of people and planet. Donate today via: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Looking forward to speaking at this @waronwant.bsky.social and @netpol.org event: End Zero Accountability: Stop the Crackdown on Protests in London. It is next Thursday - sign up here: secure.waronwant.org/page/189508/...

End Zero Accountability: Stop the Crackdown on Protests in London

Join us in London on Thursday 16 April.

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1/2 Shocking analysis by @carbonbrief.org Brief shows UK government claims that the emissions from data centres would be negligible are likely to be "nonsense" #StopDirtyDataCentres

What happens when climate advocates offload the head and heart of our work onto morally offensive American tech corps? TY to @newrepublic.com for letting me write about why "does it work" is the wrong debate around GenAI, as it is for fossil fuels. It hurts us and our cause, and that matters most

Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question.

Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

newrepublic.com

Big Tech doesn't like playing by the rules “We had a workable ordinance that puts in place really bare minimum requirements of information reporting... So for Google to really throw a fit over that, it’s a little bit disheartening.” #StopDirtyDataCentres www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Google’s sneaky trick to sidestep an Iowa county’s data center zoning rules

Just convince a nearby city to annex the land.

motherjones.com

Thank you to all the communities and campaigners across the country who joined together last weekend to participate in our days of action to #StopDirtyDataCentres. Together, we can build the power we need to that ensure data centres aren’t built at the expense of our climate and communities.

The days of action gave voice to the growing number of communities questioning the wisdom of rushing to build ever more AI - Hyperscale data centres at the expense of local communities, climate targets and the environment" #StopDirtyDataCentres www.globalactionplan.org.uk/insights/new...

Campaigners Unite to #StopDirtyDataCentres

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February communities and campaigners across the country joined together to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres. Local campaigners and NGOs co...

globalactionplan.org.uk

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

"Parliament must have the final say over whether we’ll accept Trump and big pharma’s bullying. If we give in this time around, they'll only be coming back for more." Brilliant from MP Iqbal Mohamed for @thehousemag.bsky.social 👏🏽 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

The pharma deal with the US is woefully short-sighted

There must be more scrutiny of our pharma agreement with the US. Trump is strong-arming the UK into accepting massive price rises.

politicshome.com

We joined @globalactionplan.bsky.social and friends this morning outside DESNZ as part of the weekend of action against dirty data centres! Find out more about the issues here: www.campaigncc.org/ai_data_cent...