LouiseW

Trying to live a kinder, greener life by using less plastic & doing a #2minutelitterpick #2minutebeachclean & #2minutestreetclean whenever possible.

[Deborah Lesurf @deblesurf]

25 Cornish councils will petition government to allow sewage and water to be publicly owned and properly managed as a public service 👏👏👏

[LouiseW @Cogs39]

Well that was a shocker! #rivals

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?

Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?

Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?

It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are campaigning against a monster AI data centre that is being proposed to be situated right next to their scenic village.

Just look at the size of this monstrosity. The 61-acre site features six AI data halls rising up to 35 metres high. It dwarfs the neighbouring village of Auchtertool. Imagine living next to this?

The proposed data centre is one of the biggest in the world - bigger than their village. And it’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption. It’s also being situated on beautiful countryside. Fife Council haven’t published an environmental impact report.

The development would sit directly on scenic countryside, build directly over the historic ruins of Halyard's Castle, and threaten the adjacent Auchtertool Linn Wildlife Site. Recent planning portal filings reveal the data centre site would be secured by invisible infra-red lighting and 3-metre fencing topped with trident spikes.

This campaign to stop this AI data centre monstrosity in Fife is now receiving huge amounts of media and social media coverage. For once, people power can defeat tech corporations power if this campaign continues to be amplified.

This is a big issue. Not just for Auchtertool, not just for Fife, not just for Scotland but for the world and we have to make a stand against the huge environmental and energy and water supply risks caused by these AI data centres.

In Ireland data centres energy demand has put unprecedented strain on the grid. A moratorium on new data centre construction was put in place in 2021 due to fears of blackouts which was only eased last year. This energy crisis in Ireland happened with 22% of Ireland’s energy (2025 figures) used by data centres. The energy demands of the Auchtertool hyperscale data centre alone would take Scotland’s data centre energy demand to this level.  

The total demand for energy from data centres in Scotland’s planning system is now 6,200MW and plans for six sites that haven’t reached planning stage yet, which would take the total to over 11,000MW, nearly three times the amount of Scotland’s winter peak demand.

Also, rising energy prices: In the USA, energy prices have soared due to the infrastructure that has had to be built to support the energy demands of hyperscale data centres. Bloomberg has reported that prices soared by up to 267% more in areas with data centres.

It’s time for governments to put the concerns of the public before the profit margins of tech billionaires.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Yesterday 274 people pushed for the summit of Mount Everest just to give their LinkedIn profile the edge.

Horrendous.

Video by Lakpa Tenjen Sherpa https://t.co/p8GvAkheNz

[FoxNashville @FOXNashville]

🦁 Nashville Zoo is asking the public to help oppose a proposed data center planned on neighboring property.

Zoo officials say they are concerned about potential impacts on animals, visitors and natural resources, and want more information about the project's environmental effects before it moves forward.

READ MORE: https://t.co/aJfnSGD0Sw

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"'No signs of life' in stream after sewage spill."

And the @EnvAgency does what exactly?

https://t.co/4ZyaFy96BX

[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

What the bloody hell is wrong with people? 😡

'No signs of life' in River Lugg after John Price destruction

An ECOLOGIST has warned that it could take up to 30 years for a river that has no "signs of life" to recover after it was "obliterated" by a local farmer.

Although then and now photos show that the landscape around the River Lugg near Kingsland has been drastically transformed, an ecologist has warned it could take decades to fully recover after farmer John Price used an 18-tonne digger to dredge a section.

Price also stripped a mile-long stretch of the bank of trees back in 2020.

He was jailed for 12 months in 2023 by a judge who told him he had committed "ecological vandalism on an industrial scale" along a section of one of Britain's most important salmon rivers.

He had claimed he had carried out the work to help protect locals in the nearby hamlet whose homes were devastated by flooding and to help fix riverbed erosion.

But the Environment Agency said the damage was one of the worst cases of riverside destruction it had ever seen, leading to a "devastating" effect on local wildlife - which has still not recovered six years on.

Although trees, bushes, and greenery are growing back around the river, a leading ecologist believes there are "no signs of life" in the river itself.

Environmental designer Richard Fishbourne said: "It is quite disturbing to see how much damage one person can cause in just a couple of days.
"When I went down recently there was no sign of any fish where you would usually expect to see minnows, graylings, trout and salmon.

"There's just no sign of life - there's nothing in the water here now and it has become an impoverished landscape.
"It can take decades to build up this wonderful community of species and habitat but it can all be destroyed in a moment of insanity."

More here:https://t.co/1MH3mRDo4A

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Swimmers warned to avoid sewage release area."

Southern Water up to their old tricks again I see. Sewage illegally dumped into the sea and people told to say out of the water.

When are govt going to get a grip?

https://t.co/3jNNjEmDwF

[Andy Lynes @AndyLynes]

Having spent over 12 hours on British trains over the last two days, I can confirm that the worst thing about rail travel isn't the cancellations, uncomfortable seats and bad coffee, it's the unending parade of absolute arseholes who listen to their phones without headphones.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[LouiseW @Cogs39]

@fashionistaera Run away Brett. Run away! 🫣

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Sorry but water is slightly more important than AI girlfriends and autogenerated linkedin posts

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters.

Concerns about negative environmental effects, public health, increasing utility prices, proximity to homes.

Data centres don't generate many jobs.

Will Britons follow suit?
https://t.co/oMV7dZfVhk

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Dairy farmers work every day of the year. They deserve a fair return 🐄🇬🇧

[Only Murders in the Building 🕵️‍♀️����️‍♂️🕵️‍♂️ @OnlyMurdersHulu]

Postcard from London! 🇬🇧 #OMITB #BehindTheScenes

📸: @selenagomez, Steve Martin

[LouiseW @Cogs39]

@Kristinartz Aha ❤️

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.

[Ralph Dixon @GatehouseTwenty]

Can someone explain to me 3 things please
1. Why are so many data centres needed all of a sudden?
2. Why are they so huge?
3. Why can't they use electricity & water more efficiently?
We use vast areas of land & huge quantities of power & water for these places but for what?