Just two planned data centres will pump out more planet-heating carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - one of the biggest oil and petrochemicals companies in the world. That’s more than 4.5m tonnes of carbon a year, from only two datacentres.
#petition #uk #dataCentres #foxglove
https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/andy-burnham-no-gas-for-data-centres/
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