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 (DIR) Post #Az5KJkJMzQHVoQMBSS by christineburns@mastodon.green
       2025-10-10T18:14:49Z
       
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       Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az5KJtIzYCKJhrFVcO by christineburns@mastodon.green
       2025-10-10T18:17:55Z
       
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       And that’s before we discuss the precious cooling water they’ll use once and dump. Maybe if each data centre provided a city-wide district heating system from their waste heat…