Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social was at the UK's Labour party conference this week to warn about the environmental costs of Big Tech's data centres:

ICYMI: New UK AI investment comes with a cost - your bills and our climate www.context.news/ai/opinion/u...

there is a “total lack of transparency and accountability” about existing UK data centres and their environmental impact. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Thanks again to @takeoneaction.bsky.social for a great event last night, which ran three short films exploring the hidden labour of our tech infrastructures. Great to speak w/ @foxglovelegal.bsky.social too. Below is a checklist to get more involved in tech labour/justice/de-Googling your life.

⛓️‍💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐 Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI. Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM! www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...

Germany's anti-cartel office warns on threat of US Big Tech dominance: "it is crucial now to identify potential abuses at an early stage and to ensure open markets for AI" www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/09/18/c...

Trump and his Big Tech cronies want to carpet the UK in polluting data centres - and the UK Government wants to help them. Help us stop them pushing through destructive data centres without a thought for the costs: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

US Big Tech boss says he's "hoping for more" polluting gas plants to be built in the UK - to power a vast expansion of the data centres that drive his profits. The UK Govt needs to reject this completely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amid the UK Govt's enthusiastic announcement of deals with Trump and Big Tech, it's worth remembering the clearly stated aims of Trump's 'AI Action Plan': The "unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance" of the US: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals. Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Google "declined to comment" on their own figures showing their planned data centre would create half a million tonnes of carbon emissions every year - equivalent to several international airports: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump and his Big Tech allies want to roll out vast data centres across the UK, at huge cost to our climate, water and energy supplies. The UK Govt is backing them, without a thought for the environment - help us take action: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen... #Trump #StateVisit

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Just one of these new Big Tech data centres will produce more than half a million tonnes of carbon emissions every year - new research by Foxglove finds: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Research from @foxglovelegal.bsky.social shows that Google's new data centre will cause half a million tonnes of carbon emissions. And this is just one of many the Trump - Big Tech axis hopes to roll out across the UK: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Starmer needs to stop bowing to the Trump-Big Tech agenda & start standing up for the interests of the UK public– otherwise we'll all be paying for the tech giants’ datacentres, whether in soaring energy bills, dwindling water supplies or a heating planet.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Just one of these new Big Tech data centres will produce more than half a million tonnes of carbon emissions every year - new research by Foxglove finds: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump and his Big Tech allies want to roll out vast data centres across the UK, at huge cost to our climate, water and energy supplies. The UK Govt is backing them, without a thought for the environment - help us take action: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen... #Trump #StateVisit

Trump state visit: "the White House is understood to be lobbying in support of plans for American companies to build nuclear power plants and data centres that could power artificial intelligence (AI) software in the UK." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Data centres use enormous volumes of water and electricity yet the UK's environmental watchdogs are asleep at the wheel. If you're worried about the Govt pushing these through without a thought for climate emissions & water demand, support our case here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

Data centres use enormous volumes of water and electricity yet the UK's environmental watchdogs are asleep at the wheel. If you're worried about the Govt pushing these through without a thought for climate emissions & water demand, support our case here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

“It’s alarming that the Environment Agency has been handing out licences for datacentres to extract hundreds of millions of litres of water from the environment – while failing to keep track of the total.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

If you don't want Palantir in the UK's public services, why not write to the Health Secretary over their role in the NHS: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pl...

Following protests, Coventry Council says it's reconsidering a contract with Palantir over the firm's involvement of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Disappointingly, US Judge Amit Mehta has chosen not to take significant measures to protect journalism from Google’s AI Overviews (1/5) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zuckerberg is trying to use Trump as a battering ram against the EU's laws on big tech:

icymi: concerns as a UK local council hands a contract to Palantir, a US Big Tech firm which supports Trump's ICE deportation squads and the IDF in Gaza: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #Palantir

Just donated to this important legal case, if you are in the UK and don't want our environment, energy and water supply to be sold to Big Tech data centres, you should join 2. This is a great explainer by @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on how it will affect our energy costs youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU?...

Ribera on the need to stand up to the Trump-Big Tech axis: "we have to stick to the very clear messages and limits that we tried to reflect since the very beginning. One of them is the recognition of our own capacity to protect the interests & rights of our own citizens.” www.ft.com/content/010c...

ICYMI: UK data centre developers want to build new, fossil-powered generation to provide for their vast energy demand: www.ft.com/content/7540...

"Of the 13 moderators Bloomberg spoke with, all but one said the tools they’re supplied actively make their jobs harder. 'We can’t rely on AI’s suggestions,' said Zhanerke Kadenova, 36...'It doesn’t match most of the time — like 80%. We don’t even look at them.'" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"Why would any country voluntarily hand more leverage to the White House?" Important question from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social for Europe's governments (not least the UK): www.ft.com/content/80bc...

NEWS! Foxglove (@foxglovelegal.bsky.social) and Global Action Plan (@globalactionplan.bsky.social) are suing to stop the UK govt's YOLO plans for data centers. Want a 15min brief on the case from @marthadark.bsky.social and @olliehayes.bsky.social? Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...

Listen to Oliver Hayes, our Head of Policy and Campaigns, and Martha Dark of @foxglovelegal.bsky.social talk on @themaybe.org podcast about the legal challenge we launched against the government’s decision to force construction of a data centre in Buckinghamshire. www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...

TikTok to lay off safety workers in the UK, in the wake of closing trust & safety office in Germany: www.ft.com/content/d277...

If you think our environment and our energy and water supplies are more important than the demands of Tech Billionaires, you can support our work to stop the UK Government forcing through environmentally destructive data centres here: www.crowdjustice.com/case/datacen...

The Government has overturned local concerns in order to force through a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. They didn’t even bother to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment before doing so. We’re taking legal action against this decision. www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/08/21/n...

The UK Government is forcing through a huge expansion of data centres without considering the serious cost in terms of water, energy and climate emissions. Foxglove and @globalactionplan.bsky.social are fighting back: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK Government is forcing through a huge expansion of data centres without considering the serious cost in terms of water, energy and climate emissions. Foxglove and @globalactionplan.bsky.social are fighting back: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Together with Foxglove, we’re launching a legal challenge against the government’s decision to force construction of a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire. Read the coverage in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... @theguardian.com

Along with @globalactionplan.bsky.social we @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have launched a challenge to Rayner’s decision to overrule the local planning authority & push through a data centre at Woodlands Park without any need for an Environmental Impact Assessment. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: we've @foxglovelegal.bsky.social filed a legal case challenging plans for a hyperscale data centre in Buckinghamshire with our friends @globalactionplan.bsky.social. Gov has failed to properly assess environmental impact & huge energy and water consumption. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

don't worry everyone! data centre water use is a myth! it's all a big misunderstanding! so says a report from the lobby group TechUK, produced in partnership with the Environment Agency (!). the problem is, the research is, to use the technical term, bollocks. www.techuk.org/resource/tec...

Thousands of our supporters have told the UK Health Secretary that they don't want Palantir - a firm which supports the IDF in Gaza and Trump's ICE paramilitaries in the US - involved in our NHS. You can join them here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/08/12/3...

Important story. Comment from Foxglove's @marthadark.bsky.social: “It's appalling that this guidance was not only approved, but remained unchanged until a news organisation started asking questions. This is yet more evidence that Meta can't be trusted when it comes to the wellbeing of its users."

Thousands of our supporters have told the UK Health Secretary that they don't want Palantir - a firm which supports the IDF in Gaza and Trump's ICE paramilitaries in the US - involved in our NHS. You can join them here: www.foxglove.org.uk/2025/08/12/3...

Friends in the UK: Please email Wes Streeting – tell him that there should be no role for Palantir in the NHS www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pl... @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

“We know these models are being used very widely & what’s concerning is that we found very meaningful differences between measures of bias in different models..Google’s model, in particular, downplays women’s physical & mental health needs in comparison to men’s." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

💥NEW💥: Come work with us! Future of Tech Institute is hiring *three* senior advocacy roles to run advocacy with EU institutions, Germany, and France. (Roles in thread) EU: tinyurl.com/5n6awzdw

💪 All power to our content moderator friends at TikTok in Germany who are on strike after TikTok tried to replace them with AI and outsource their jobs. @social.verdi.de www.theguardian.com/technology/2...