Robbie Mulhern

[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 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.

▪️The rise of AI is accelerating this trend. The UK Government's Compute Roadmap notes that AI data centres can devote up to 40% of their energy consumption to cooling systems.

▪️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.

Numerous campaigns against these data centres are being organised by local communities. No one voted for this. If you are involved in any of these local campaigns, please DM me and I’ll try and help you amplify your campaigns.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Ask yourself why you never had about this candidate but you heard about so many Green candidates.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Isn’t it great that we’re celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday whilst ignoring the message he’s spent the last 20 years trying to get through to us:

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇱🇧🇮🇱IDF soldiers have filmed themselves looting Lebanese villages and posted the videos online.

Motorcycles, televisions, paintings, sofas, and rugs are being loaded into military vehicles in broad daylight while commanders stand by and do nothing.

One soldier said: "It's on a crazy scale.

Anyone who takes something immediately puts it in their vehicle.

It's not hidden.

Everyone sees it and understands."

Over 50 villages in southern Lebanon are now under Israeli military control as part of the "Yellow Line," with more than 1 million civilians displaced.

The looting is systematic, the videos are public, and consequences have been nonexistent!

ZeroHedge

[Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 @Issaamro]

Today , We were attacked by an Israeli settler in my house .

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.

Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When people say that billionaires keep us divided with culture wars so we won’t fight a class war, it’s because it’s true.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Work until you die, so the rich can enjoy their tax breaks.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

I took this footage when I was about 13. What you’re seeing is Jewish American tourists parading around our house like it’s a zoo, gloating about stealing it, harassing us and hurling insults. This is some of what we are protesting when we protest land theft events at Yeshivas.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

https://t.co/kbHSkpxr3W

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Why is the government continuing to provide military support to a country that is committing genocide?

My letter to the Foreign Secretary, following the UN report confirming that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

[Robbie Mulhern @RobbieMulhern]

🪓 🪓 🪓

[MattyDavis @mattwilldavis7]

Big win on the road, Leythers made it feel like a home game, unreal support👊🏼🐆 @LeighLeopardsRL

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is brilliant.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Derek John Beaumont @derek_beaumont]

I’ve had a collaborative shirt designed in support of @mickyhigham treatment fund available in time for his walk to show unity of clubs and his country he represented. All proceeds go to the fund! Link for full story and details
https://t.co/yw5kgiw29K
@WarringtonRLFC @LeighLeopardsRL @Saints1890 @WiganWarriorsRL @EnglandRL
@SuperLeague

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Every. Single. Day.

Genocide.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

How do Keir Starmer and David Lammy sleep at night?