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Seasonal spikes in data centre water use pose a risk to water-stressed regions, despite tech industry claims, Environment Agency analysis shows

Dear friends, All protocols observed.Thank you for your warm welcome – and Michael Bloomberg, thank you for your kind words – and for your longstanding and outstanding leadership on climate action. Yo...

Our research has found that at least £325 billion of dirty money from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade and tax dodging flows through the UK every year. This is equivalent t...

This briefing outlines the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to shape sustainable consumption in Europe, with a particular focus on its implications for achieving climate neutrality.

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions

Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error

When people think of Tower Hamlets, data centres probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. Perhaps the vintage markets on Brick Lane, or the many restaurants, cafes and pubs. Maybe even the Old Truman Brewery. But now part of that area is under threat from a data centre proposal which is causing anger among local people.

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The new figures are incompatible with the government’s green targets, campaigners say.

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Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.

Just convince a nearby city to annex the land.

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February communities and campaigners across the country joined together to oppose Big Tech's unchecked expansion of hyperscale data centres. Local campaigners and NGOs co...

There must be more scrutiny of our pharma agreement with the US. Trump is strong-arming the UK into accepting massive price rises.

Environmental charity Global Action Plan UK is coordinating a campaign effort to bring attention to wider concerns about datacentre electricity demand, water use and environmental impacts

A 187,000 sqm data centre on Green Belt land next to your school. Cancer risks, 24/7 noise, 144 diesel generators. Learn the facts and take action.

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Activists are set to take to British streets on Friday for two days of protests against the expansion of data centres ‌to serve booming demand for artificial intelligence, a...

Environmental charity Global Action Plan UK is coordinating a campaign effort to bring attention to wider concerns about datacentre electricity demand, water use and environmental impacts

Big Tech’s ambition to build more and more energy-hungry data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. Now is the time to act.

We must phase out fossil fuels—not endlessly reshuffle environmental sacrifice zones around the planet, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.

The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.