"Britain’s national grid, already under pressure over soaring demand, is facing a new challenge: AI data centres have been given government authority to jump the queue for scarce power connections, ahead of housing development"

[junesim63@mstdn.social]

"Britain’s national grid, already under pressure over soaring demand, is facing a new challenge: AI data centres have been given government authority to jump the queue for scarce power connections, ahead of housing development"

#Housing #AI #NationalGrid #UKPolitics #Energy

The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of new homes
https://www.thenerve.news/p/ai-data-centres-electricity-grid-housing-new-homes-energy-delay

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@junesim63 utter madness

[tcmuffin@toot.wales]

@junesim63

With solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage, the government could legislate on any new data centre being self-powered.

Site any new data centre near the coast with a desalination plant and mandate that they’re self-sufficient for water too.

Competition for limited resources solved!

[junesim63@mstdn.social]

@TCMuffin

Simple, but this government is in the pockets of the techbros, so no, they won't.

[tcmuffin@toot.wales]

@junesim63

Sadly true

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@junesim63 @TCMuffin
The trouble with tech bros is that they lack other intelligence compounded by their wealth isolating them from mosts folks lives

[junesim63@mstdn.social]

@Christo_459 @TCMuffin
I think they also lack empathy, so even if they were aware of how most of us live, they wouldn't care.

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@junesim63 @TCMuffin I consider empathy an intelligence