Club Historians

Telling the stories not heard enough of working class culture & leisure, Coventry and beyond. Not Just Beer and Bingo! 1970s and 80s Coventry Dirty Stop Outs

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

This is digital tyranny, complete surveillance disguised as for children's safely.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

It’s never about what they say it's about.

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

So much for free speech, human rights and the rest. All binned if this goes through. This is total surveillance. Digital tyranny.

[Jacqui Deevoy @JacquiDeevoy1]

Orwell wasn’t psychic - he had inside information!

Don’t believe for a second this is for your ‘safety’.

And please don’t say “well, I’ve got nothing to hide so I’m fine with it.” Say that and you’re totally missing the point.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

✋Stop the uncontrolled use of facial recognition

Together with leading rights groups, we've just delivered this message to the @ukhomeoffice calling on the Government to rein in this Orwellian tech

Read the joint statement⤵️
https://t.co/SueHOsuwcH

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

We can't have factories, coal mines and oil rigs but we can have these energy, water guzzling and polluting horror shows all over the country.

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🇬🇧 WATCH: Footage shows what a data centre looks like when it is fully powered up.

The British Government says data centres can be treated as critical infrastructure projects, meaning they may avoid parts of the traditional planning process.

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

They sure are a lot more and none of it any good for us.

[Walkabout @Walkabout24]

They're a lot more....

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Labour government have proved that their net zero policies are gigantic piss take. They tell us plebs to turn off our lights, reduce eating red meat and dairy and also slap carbon taxes on us, yet they are ramming through hundreds of massive data centres that hoover up energy and water - which risk higher energy bills and jeopardise energy and water security.

▪️These gigantic hyperscale data centres that consume as much electricity in 24 hours as roughly 89 average streets use over an entire year.

▪️The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes and energy and water consumption.

▪️These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Emerging research suggests large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Net zero for us, but not for the tech giants. Power taken from us to power Big Tech data centres.

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

Stop the proposed AI data centre near Auchtertool, Fife. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/M9Nnxm5thX via @UKChange

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

A huge AI data centre to be built on countryside by Auchtertool village in Fife - using an estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy consumption when in operation.

Please sign this petition by @JamesMelville calling for the Scottish government to stop this.

https://t.co/qvQAzBo2jI

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A recent report by the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health confirms that unchecked AI data centre expansion could produce nearly 400 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2030. This rivals the annual emissions of the entire UK.

And yet Ed Miliband pushes net zero on us, but not for the data centre tech giants. The whole thing is a scam.

[Together @Togetherdec]

“Effectively, ID cards for the internet”

“UK Govt is setting up one of most authoritarian internet regimes in the world”

@silkiecarlo @PatrickChristys

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

Data centres are the finishing off what's left of our nature and countryside.

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

How horrible is this in the middle of a beautiful part of the countryside!

[Restore Trust @RestoreTrustNT]

Sycamore Gap was loved because it was real: a living tree in a wild place — birdsong, wind, silence, sky.

So why replace it with a man-made ‘sound sculpture’ on a slab of concrete, blasting recorded voices and artificial noise?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The UK now hosts more than 500 active data centres (the third largest in the world). They have been rammed through despite huge local community concerns about the impact on their local landscapes, farmland, energy and water consumption.

These enormous data centres are giant industrial facilities consuming vast quantities of electricity, water and land while placing increasing pressure on the UK’s energy infrastructure.

▪️Water consumption by data centres is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 400 million tons.

▪️ A recent report by the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health confirms that unchecked AI data centre expansion could produce nearly 400 million tonnes of CO2 annually by 2030. This rivals the annual emissions of the entire UK.

▪️Annual power consumption from data centres is projected to double to 945 TWh by 2030, around ‌the ⁠same as the whole of Japan’s energy consumption, with AI accounting for 40% of the total.

▪️It is estimated that data-centre power and water consumption could double by 2030 due to AI growth.

▪️Research suggests that large AI facilities can create localised warming effects around their sites, sometimes described as a “data heat island” effect.

Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. Power for the people, not the AI data centres.

[The Warwicka @Warwicka]

Dartmoor without its ponies is unthinkable. These semi-wild herds have shaped the landscape for centuries and are part of England’s living heritage. Policies that could lead to the loss of up to 90% of them need urgent reconsideration. #SaveDartmoorPonies

https://t.co/oLjzjIxqaU

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE ‼️‼️

People can't use fire places that have been in homes for centuries ???

But the Gov can burn whole forests at Drax... build Data centres... spray the skies with Sulphur , see toxic fires from solar panels and EVs all the time etc etc

A Gov is supposed to help the people

NOT PERSECUTE THEM CONSTANTLY

👉 https://t.co/KQUZWQmJDZ?

[Nico Lagan @RealNicoLagan]

The Digital Safety Act is set to be introduced today in the House of Commons.

And as I predicted months ago, the bill is rumored to contain social media bans for teenagers and kids under the age of 16.

I had also predicted that the new Bill C-63 would be called something along the lines of the Online Safety Act … I was pretty damn close…

To enforce Bill C-9, C-22 and C-8, our government needs a digital ID and a social media ban is exactly how it will be implemented.

This isn’t about protecting our children — It’s about control, surveillance and censorship…

Don’t be fooled, all these bills are interconnected and this is the last piece of the puzzle.

[Club Historians @CHistorians]

They can get away with this wanton destruction of ancient woodland.

[EmFord @EmFord2015]

300 trees in ancient woodland felled before planning permission was granted, the only word for it is crime. But the developers will apologise, pay a meagre fine and continue on their way.
https://t.co/QiO7iOiFmT