1/2 Shocking analysis by @carbonbrief.org Brief shows UK government claims that the emissions from data centres would be negligible are likely to be "nonsense" #StopDirtyDataCentres

What happens when climate advocates offload the head and heart of our work onto morally offensive American tech corps? TY to @newrepublic.com for letting me write about why "does it work" is the wrong debate around GenAI, as it is for fossil fuels. It hurts us and our cause, and that matters most

Big Tech doesn't like playing by the rules “We had a workable ordinance that puts in place really bare minimum requirements of information reporting... So for Google to really throw a fit over that, it’s a little bit disheartening.” #StopDirtyDataCentres www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thank you to all the communities and campaigners across the country who joined together last weekend to participate in our days of action to #StopDirtyDataCentres. Together, we can build the power we need to that ensure data centres aren’t built at the expense of our climate and communities.

The days of action gave voice to the growing number of communities questioning the wisdom of rushing to build ever more AI - Hyperscale data centres at the expense of local communities, climate targets and the environment" #StopDirtyDataCentres www.globalactionplan.org.uk/insights/new...

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

"Parliament must have the final say over whether we’ll accept Trump and big pharma’s bullying. If we give in this time around, they'll only be coming back for more." Brilliant from MP Iqbal Mohamed for @thehousemag.bsky.social 👏🏽 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

We joined @globalactionplan.bsky.social and friends this morning outside DESNZ as part of the weekend of action against dirty data centres! Find out more about the issues here: www.campaigncc.org/ai_data_cent...

Save Brick Lane saying #StopDirtyDataCentres outside the site where one is proposed. The community is wants the site to be used for social housing.

#PullThePlug marching to Google HQ in London #StopDirtyDataCentres #MarchAgainstTheMachines

Thank you @computerweekly.bsky.social for covering our days of action this weekend to #StopDirtyDataCentres at the expense of communities and a safe climate. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666394...

Potters Bar residents are taking part in the days of action this weekend with a public consultation today and tomorrow to oppose the plan for a 187,000 sqm industrial data centre on protected Green Belt land. Check out their new website: protect-potters-bar.co.uk #StopDirtyDataCentres

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning outside DESNEZ, to kick off our #StopDirtyDataCentres days of action. Join an action near you this weekend: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Thank you to everyone who joined us this morning outside the DESNEZ, to kick off our Stop Dirty Data Centres days of action, in solidarity with people across the country taking a stand against data centres being built at the expense of communities and climate. #StopDirtyDataCentres

Communities across the UK are taking action today and tomorrow to #StopDirtyDataCentres. They'll use energy, land + water that should be for people, not big tech. In Brick Lane, London, they plan to build a new data centre instead of social housing 🤯 Moratorium now! @globalactionplan.bsky.social

"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, and the impact of the facilities ‌on communities and the environment." #StopDirtyDataCentres www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“This weekend, communities challenging hyperscale datacentres will come together for the first time ...we can all be part of creating a better future where infrastructure works for communities and climate, not against them.” #StopDirtyDataCentres www.computerweekly.com/news/3666394...

On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February, communities will come together to take coordinated action, calling for stronger protection of our climate in the face of rapid hyperscale data centre expansion. Join us: www.globalactionplan.org.uk/stop-dirty-data-centres

Big Tech’s ambition to build more data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. It is estimated that more than 100 data centres are planned across the UK, the largest of which would consume more electricity than double all the households in Wales.

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

Can't see a similarly named bill getting past the UK parliament's table office - heard MPs have enough trouble with strongly worded early days motions...

Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social

I'm featured in TIME's new cover story "People vs AI", speaking about my experience working on Gemini during Google's backslide into AI hype and militarism. A few thoughts 🧵 time.com/7377579/ai-d...

Thank you to No Tech for Apartheid for holding this work down

Looking at USPS only through a profit lens misses rural economic opportunities

Amazon warehouse workers from Coventry, United Kingdom, joined Unifor organizers on Feb. 5 at the union’s national office in Toronto to exchange lessons, strategies, and hard-won insights from efforts to organize one of the world’s largest employers. buff.ly/m33btTA #canlab

Was lovely to chat with the 7am podcast team about why a huge clean export project flipped to powering data centres It's all part of the bigger story of tech eating up the resources of climate action, diverted away from eliminating fossil fuels and towards fuelling a growth-obsessed hype industry.

Using obscure process to exclude local voices, no transparency over energy and water use, and a major end client who doesn't reveal themselves: is this really how we build a sustainable future? #StopDirtytDatacentres thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/26/r...

Major news yesterday for our legal challenge against the UK Government - the government has admitted that its decision to force through the construction of a new hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire contained a “serious logical error”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They want us to shut up, while the machine crushes us all. It’s time to say “SHUT DOWN the machine!” Join us as we make it clear. We want ICE out of our communities. #ICEOUT

1/3 Went to the royal courts today to challenge the government's rush to build hyperscale data centres without adequate consideration of their immense environmental impact. #StopDirtyDataCentres @globalactionplan.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

Data centres: move fast & lie about your green credentials: "We were not told that El Paso Electric would be building a power plant powered by fossil fuels..we were told that Meta is going green and would rely on renewable energy.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2101202...

@microsoft.com’s new plan to convince communities to welcome data centers includes groundbreaking new ideas like *checks notes* paying its taxes and electric bills. 🥴 🧵

Global public service unions @psiglobalunion.bsky.social condemns the actions of the US against Venezuela A threat to workers and people, inteenational law, human rights, stability and peace in the region @epsu.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social @strikemap.org @ituc.bsky.social

"Workers said that unchecked algorithmic control by platform companies has pushed them into deep economic insecurity, shifting all risks onto workers while companies continue to profit."

"The spectre of democracy may still be hovering over our heads if only we... look up, to engage in the slow, difficult, democratic labour that the algorithmic feed was designed to obliterate: critical evaluation of views and arguments thrown at us" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... .

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

About time the judiciary stood up to lawfare...

Billionaires don't create wealth. Workers do.

@bma.org.uk Residents have rejected Wes Streeting's offer, and will be back on the picket lines from 17 December. We've worked with the BMA to map all the strikes, including days & times for you to join your nearest picket line: bit.ly/BMADecemberPickets #StrikeMap #DoctorStrike #NHS

Must read article on how"the EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists" #deregulation #corporatecapture www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

A thoughtful article by a student journalist offering a compassionate view of why boys end up pulled into the harmful incel culture – and what families can do to help them out again. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights. It was a manifesto pledge Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?

Last night, hundreds of Amazon workers in Frankenthal, Germany, walked off the job for the first time. They defied intimidation from management – and joined trade union ver.di and the growing global movement to #MakeAmazonPay. UNI Europa stood with them on the picket lines.

The UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court. The Govt has confirmed its a respondent in two active Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) cases, including one from Russian billionaire oligarch Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (h/t Global Justice Now)

Big tech's colonisation of the world continues...

"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...

This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer: "We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

One reason business opposed to min wages argue for youth-rates, is they help keep everyone's wages down... if your employer can have a younger worker do the same for less, you're less able to push for higher wages #NMW #NoYouthRates #SameWorkSamePay

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...