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    L’enorme nuova Essex DataCentre di Google per emettere 570.000 tonnellate di CO2 all’anno

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    1. Scotsman1047 on

      And to make it even worse the companies running these data centres will barely any pay any tax and the data centres will use a huge amount of water for cooling purposes too.

    2. poke50uk on

      You REALLY don’t want them! And I’m saying that as someone VERY in the tech industry.

      [What it’s like living next to one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjj7wDYaiI)

      * They hire basically no-one.
      * They take up loads of space.
      * They are an eyesore.
      * They make constant noise.
      * Produce light pollution.
      * They use up LOADS of your drinking water.
      * They pollute ground water.
      * They will be prioritized in a brownout over you.
      * You will pay larger electric bills.
      * They will be subed with taxes, but not contribute anything themselves.
      * And now tonnes of C02

      If you want progress in data and Ai, fund startups, research and education – not a data center owned by a non-brit corp billionaire.

    3. jtrimm98 on

      I’ve been trying my best to move away from using their services to more local and environmental friendly options. For example I use ecosia as my search engine and I highly recommend it. https://www.ecosia.org/ other such alternatives can be found in r/buyfromeu

    4. arabidopsis on

      If it’s Essex, won’t it be from power mostly from Sizewell and wind turbines off the East Anglia coast though??

    5. west0ne on

      It wouldn’t be quite so bad if these datacentres were dumping their excess heat into community heating schemes that were heating places like leisure centres, hospitals, schools and maybe even homes. I couldn’t see anything in the article to suggest that was the case but if it isn’t then it should be part of the planning obligations.

    6. Ok_Photo_865 on

      They need to figure out an offset for it or close it. This is getting supid.0

    7. LWDJM on

      1,500 tonnes of CO2 a *DAY*??

      That’s more than 100,000 cars on the road per year equivalent

      From *one* datacentre from *one* company

      I’m glad I recycle my jam jars

      Fuck me

    8. GianfrancoZoey on

      Look up the SEZ’s and AI zones that they’ve put into place in the UK. They’re carving up Britain and selling it off to corporate governance and hardly anyone cares or even knows about it.

    9. Scot1776 on

      Interesting to see the opposition to data centers and AI in the uk and Europe. The tech industry is dominated by the USA because Europe can’t innovate and wants to regulate everything. Now they’re making the same mistakes with AI which USA and China will dominate

    11. arbfay on

      That’s what just 200K ICE cars emit per year.

      Convert 300K ICE cars to EVs and it’s offset.
      Or replace one medium sized gas-powered electric generator with a cleaner tech.
      Or plant 30M trees (hard)
      Or convince 1M people to go vegetarian (harder)

    12. Artabasdos on

      More pointless AI to steal jobs. More pointless AI to enrich the few and disenfranchise the many. More pointless AI to steal humanity’s collective knowledge and art, then sell it back to you.

      Go to hell.

    13. ash_ninetyone on

      I understand data centres are a new necessity, but there has to be a much more efficient way of doing it than this

    14. Polly_____ on

      I bet the negotiated a very cheap rate for electricity while we pay high retail rates

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