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Oliver Hayes

@olliehayes.bsky.social
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Head of policy & campaigns at Global Action Plan. Working on big tech’s climate harms.

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Global Action Plan @globalactionplan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This weekend we’re coordinating days of action with campaigners and local communities across the country, to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres in the UK. Join an action near you: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres
"People are rising up against big tech data centres being built at the expense of people and planet". 

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Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Together with our friends at @globalactionplan.bsky.social we've made submissions opposing a huge new data centre in Houghton Regis - we've focused on the HUGE amounts of energy and water it'll use. Read the full subs here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/06/06/f...
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Foxglove and Global Action Plan put in submissions opposing a second UK data centre – at Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire
To build new hyperscale data centres, the government must show they have a plan that won't trash our supplies of power and drinking water.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/05/2025
labour is buying into the hype in the hope of getting some of the investment going into the AI machine without really asking whether there are tangible results on the other side. this strategy is doomed.
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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
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One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Marks & Spencer says it's committed to taking action to "reflect the climate emergency we all face". Meanwhile they advertise on GB News, which spreads climate misinformation & denial. 👉👉👉 actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... (follow @stopfundingheat.bsky.social for more on this)
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Oliver Hayes @olliehayes.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Govt and industry being completely obtuse re AI plans. There is no transparency re data centre water use now and in future (see below), nor how accelerating power demands will be met without wrecking 2030 decarb plan as per @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social report out today. That situation can't hold.
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We went to the #AIActionSummit today with an early Valentine’s message for Big Tech & industry execs: It’s time to dump fossil fuels. 👋 Powering data centres with fossil energy? Talk about a toxic relationship. We’re demanding a swift divorce, and a speed date with #renewables.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Bradford clean air zone saves health service £360,000 in first year - Doctor visits for respiratory illnesses and heart problems were down by 25% #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year
After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/02/2025
The United States has declared economic war on some of its closest allies and Silicon Valley is itching to use the power of the state to defend its interests at all costs. It’s time for an alliance not just to combat US belligerence, but to build a different vision for tech.
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We need an international alliance against the US and its tech industry
The United States must face consequences for economic warfare
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
There has been relentless attempts to spread FUD on heat pumps in the UK. Despite all this the UK heat pump market has grown by 63% last year. www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/r...
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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group
An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Over the past two years, the Ener...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
When we looked at the total cost of ownership of heat pumps in the UK I was surprised by this finding: Heat pumps with only slightly above average efficiency already today reach cost parity with gas boilers after the government grant. More here👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Total cost of ownership of heat pumps and policy choice: The case of Great Britain
Heat pumps are essential for decarbonizing heating, as shown by numerous studies. Their adoption depends significantly on economic attractiveness. Usi…
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵
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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/12/2024
The tech industry makes our lives hell, but at least you can help name the worst billionaire of the year. Cast your ballot! 🗳️
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/12/2024
A bumper new @caadcoalition.bsky.social report out today examining how projections, rhetoric and fossil economy dynamics mean big tech's thirst for chatbots = guaranteed climate harm. (happy to have helped the team there w/ some of the data and research) caad.info/analysis/bri...
A chart showing that Microsoft's emissions have risen significantly above their climate target.a chart showing google's meissions It's not showing that the total power consumption of a variety of tech companies, including Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, have risen significantly over the past 6 years or so.
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Oliver Hayes @olliehayes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@maxrushden.bsky.social If Retegui wants to be the next scott mcgleish (and he surely does) he’s got to keep playing until he’s 50. SM (b.1974) has three apps this season for leverstock green
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Oliver Hayes @olliehayes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
V pleased we @globalactionplan.bsky.social have signed this letter, and delighted it has been picked up by Brazil’s climate minister @marinasilva.bsky.social
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