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Like so many Britons, I usually consult a weather app before venturing out of the house – and often cancel plans if I don’t like what I see. Here’s what happened when I went cold turkey for a weekWhen I heard on the radio that more than half of British people would consider cancelling an […]
I stopped checking the weather forecast – and got a series of wonderful surprises Read More »
Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenterThis story is from Floodlight, a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate actionFor more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of
Definition of green facilities made in 2022, before release of ChatGPT, says Action to Protect Rural ScotlandA Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume of carbon emissions being ignored, according to an analysis by a Scottish charity.“Green datacentres” are at the heart of Scotland’s ambitions
Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows Read More »
Climate change is pushing starving grey whales to San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes led to 40% of 21 deathsFerries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, whales could easily go unnoticed by
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Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts sayAs the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they
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Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targetsMore than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently.British officials say this is an inevitable consequence of a years-long wait to connect to the National Grid, and
More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity Read More »
The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defenseBack in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. “My culture is a very dominant culture,” he said on MSNBC. “It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t
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Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken areaA plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy
‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan Read More »
State and federal energy ministers said investments in new renewable generation and energy storage should “fully offset” new data centres’ energy needs Power hungry datacentres that are growing to meet the energy demand of artificial intelligence could be forced to invest in enough new solar and wind generation to completely cover their electricity needs.State and
Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar errorDevelopers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres –
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