Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Sep 15, 2025

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#AI's competition for human's basic needs #Datacenters
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👉 #Google’s huge new #Kent #datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of #CO2 a year👈
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Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of #Thurrock ‘#hyperscale’ unit as #UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity...

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/15/google-datacentre-kent-co2-thurrock-uk-ai

Google’s huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year

Exclusive: Planning documents show impact of Thurrock ‘hyperscale’ unit as UK attempts to ramp up AI capacity

The Guardian
The Guardian MEWS 📰Jan 23, 2023

‘It used to be like heaven’: the Iraq wetlands decimated by the climate crisis – in pictures
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The people of the Hawizeh marshes of southern Iraq have an ancient history living in the world’s most unique and biod...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2023/jan/23/iraq-wetlands-hawizeh-marshes-climate-crisis-in-pictures

‘It used to be like heaven’: the Iraq wetlands decimated by the climate crisis – in pictures

The people of the Hawizeh marshes of southern Iraq have an ancient history living in the world’s most unique and biodiverse wetlands. The region has been reduced to near-desert as a result of the climate crisis, devastated by drought and man-made dams. Thousands of families are having to leave.

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