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Just Two Of The UK's Planned Al Datacenters Will Emit More Carbon Than ExxonMobil

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Sunshine@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/uk-ai-datacenters-emit-carbon-exxonmobil/

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  • florge@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Separately, the Guardian recently reported that the UK government is unaware of what the country’s largest datacenters are being used for. The government notably dissolved its technology department in July.

    What the fuck

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  • eclipse7@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Does the data center owners have no moral sense whatsoever? They’re literally destroying our future and seem completely fine about it? And why are we even allowing businesses to build these in the first place, they should at least be required to run on green energy.

    fuckthistimeline.jpg

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    • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, yes… But have you considered money?

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    • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ahh, the wonders of

      ✨🎶Capitalism🎶✨

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  • nosuchanon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Carbon credits for the citizens and unlimited pollution for the data centers. Everybody wins. /s

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