Elizabeth Budd 🍃💚🍃

So many scandals/So little time/So hard to fathom/We can but try.
“No-one made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do so little"

[Elizabeth Budd 🍃💚🍃 @LibbyBudd]

“As far as I’m concerned, nothing is more important than children and the future of our planet. That’s my entire motivation”: Daniel Bath, Lucy’s teacher. https://t.co/Pog6Z7OAqG

[piperquiney @piperquiney]

@MrsBr0wn_82 Yep Aberdeenshire too! 200 acres at Blackdog. Council kept that quiet!!!

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

Search to see if any Data centers are planned near you ⬇️

https://t.co/byWXjCNBnF

https://t.co/byWXjCNBnF

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

Dear

I am writing to express my serious concerns about the proposed 600 megawatt Cato AI data centre near Auchtertool in Fife (planning reference 26/01243/PPP).

This single development would cover around 61 acres and consume approximately 4,000 GWh of electricity per year roughly the same amount used by half a million Scottish homes, or about 20% of Scotland’s total electricity consumption.

With multiple hyperscale data centres now being proposed across Scotland, the cumulative impact on our electricity grid, water supplies, and energy bills is deeply worrying, especially as we already face some of the highest energy costs in Europe.

I believe this scale of development on productive farmland is inappropriate and risks damaging our environment and increasing costs for local families and businesses.

I respectfully urge you to raise this matter with the Scottish Government and Fife Council, and to support calls for a proper assessment of the national impact of these data centres before further approvals are granted.

Thank you for your time and assistance.Yours sincerely,

You can email this to your MP’s parliamentary address or find their direct constituency email on the UK Parliament website.

https://t.co/hvSfekTUea

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is facing a massive data centre explosion and most people have no idea.

In a small village in Fife called Auchtertool.

A giant 600 megawatt AI hyperscale data centre called Cato is being proposed on farmland right next to Auchtertool in Fife, just 7 to 8 miles from the existing Queensway Park data centre in Glenrothes.

This monster project will cover around 61 acres, the size of about 35 football pitches.

One project alone using as much electricity every year as half a million Scottish homes, roughly 20% of the entire country's electricity consumption.

These hyperscale AI data centres are popping up across Scotland, sucking up massive amounts of power, water for cooling, and farmland, while we already pay some of the highest energy bills in Europe.

Scotland and its people have become the AI testing ground for the tech bro's
Are you happy with that?

Hopefully you will make a stand against this with me and others like @JamesMelville
Who has been fantastic at highlighting this all week, please have a look at his page.

To oppose this, go to the Fife Council planning portal and submit your objection now.

The application is 26/01243/PPP.

You can also contact your local councillor, your MSP, and your MP to raise concerns about the impact on our grid, bills, and countryside.

Every voice counts.

Ive put all the links in the comments including a MP template letter and planning documents.

Please share this with family and friends.

Thank you

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Some of the comments from the residents of Auchtertool in Fife.

As you can see they're not having it 👏🏼

We have to fight this with everything we have.

I refuse to let my kids and my grandchildren grow up in a digital prison.

[caroline jones @11cemetarygates]

The last piece of Denby has been made. Labour is killing our industries, our jobs our society. #labourdestroysbritain #denby #joblosses #heritage #labourbetrayal

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

The brilliant @Feargal_Sharkey sums it up

"The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception"

Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt

Are you listening @DefraGovUK ?

https://t.co/s4lIJWp8O1

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A huge AI data centre is proposed on countryside by Auchtertool village in Fife - to guzzle an estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy consumption.

Please sign this petition calling for the Scottish government to stop this. Over 1,200 signatures already.

https://t.co/gqlk4AjhrF

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

My week of ecological research 🐝

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Please, please do read this. It is extremely important, and utterly compelling.

[Elizabeth Budd 🍃💚🍃 @LibbyBudd]

@DefendOurJuries Comprehensive record of the background for this from the inimitable @CraigMurrayOrg https://t.co/t0QXHhalG2

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Seattle, USA 🇺🇸

Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of energy guzzling new AI data centres due to a public backlash. The city council voted unanimously in favour of the temporary ban. Hopefully more local councils across the world will do the same.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Rail fares are a cost-of-living issue. We have the highest rail fares in Europe.

The Railways Bill is coming back to parliament this Wednesday. @@CHinchliffMP's amendment can help cut fares.

Take 2 mins now to email your MP to stand up for passengers: https://t.co/6Slt1QDEc1

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'."

And that is because it is nonsense, pure unadulterated, made up nonsense.

https://t.co/ReGvCOqqOm

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

They tell us to turn off taps, switch off hosepipes, drink from bottles with tethered caps, turn the lights off and tell us to eat less red meat…but at the same time, allow huge AI data centres that deplete our natural resources. We are being conned by our own governments.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

We have submitted a "reclaiming motion" to appeal against the cancellation of the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Falmouth MP Jayne Kirkham reform of water industry."

It's incredible when you think about it, South West Water has just been fined £1.85 million for poisoning a whole town, Brixham win Devon, that's the 165th offence they're been found guilty of and yet they still have an operating licence?

What's the hells going on?

https://t.co/YLukkFNY9d

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

We've delivered the photo book from our Day of Action for Nature and Green Spaces to MPs from opposition parties.
@RosieP4 met with @alexburghart (Cons)
@AdrianRamsay (Green) @GideonJAmos's rep (Libs)
@danny__kruger (Reform)
Sadly nobody from @UKLabour was free!

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The call for public ownership of the water industry is growing louder everyday.

Why are govt refusing a referendum, why are govt refusing to allow the public to decide?

https://t.co/RIWSwgPl7u