Action on climate emergency
Get a grip on data centres the Government has been told by The Green Party as it attempts to block AI data centres from receiving special planning permissions. The party’s Deputy leader Mothin Ali has said it was unacceptable that data centres were designated as “critical infrastructure,” allowing developers to avoid the usual planning requirements. On 12 …
Where’s the water? As many areas in the UK face housepipe bans, and the summer has been exceptionally dry and hot, with three heatwaves to date, do we have enough water to cater for all those data centres that are being planned and are seen by some as a key to growth? Well ‘no’ according …
Are your data centres green? Is a question being posed in Scotland as green data centres are at the heart of the Scottish governments ambitions to develop economically
Google’s huge new datacentre to emit massive tonnes of CO2 a year. Google has applied for planning permission for yet another enormous data centre in Thurrock, Essex. It will emit 570,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year equivalent to about 500 short-haul flights a week, planning documents show. Spread across 52 hectares (128 acres), the …
Is AI a silver bullet? Lots of media coverage from the recent Labour Party Conference about the big gains (as yet unproven) to be made for the UK with the expansion of AI and data centres, would suggest so. Take, for example, the PM’s enthusiasm. In his conference speech, Keir Starmer talked up AI as …
Drax carbon capture and AI is now in the news as Artificial Intelligence use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water. It also indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs, as Yale Environment 360 reports. …