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The critical battle to save Christmas Island's unique native species from invasive feral cats is intensifying. These predators are pushing incredible birds and reptiles toward extinction.
This difficult conservation work is a complex balance of protecting irreplaceable wildlife and managing animal welfare, all to give the island's natural heritage a future.
#ChristmasIsland #InvasiveSpecies #FeralCats #Conservation #AustralianWildlife #Biodiversity
So Google is building a massive AI data centre on Christmas Island, a tiny remote Australian territory with 1,692 people, and it’s exactly the kind of dystopian tech imperialism you’d expect.
They’re militarising a small island community in the name of cloud computing, partnering with the Australian Defence Department to monitor Chinese submarines and enable AI powered warfare systems. The island becomes a pawn in great power conflicts while Google extracts strategic value.
Meanwhile, locals are promised vague economic benefits while their homeland gets turned into a surveillance node with subsea cables linking to US Marine bases. Classic extractive colonialism dressed up as innovation.
The energy demands alone, powered by a local mining company, naturally, are staggering. Big Tech continues doubling our electricity costs for AI toys while communities bear the burden.
Christmas Island is known for red crab migrations, not military infrastructure. But when you’re a trillion dollar corporation, even the most remote ecosystems are just real estate for your empire.
#googleisevil #bigtech #militarisation #digitalcolonialism #aiethics #christmasisland #defendtheislands #environment #aibubble
Google Plans Strategic AI Data Center on Remote Australian Military Outpost
#AI #Google #AIDataCenter #Australia #ChristmasIsland #BigTech #CloudComputing #IndoPacific #AIInfrastructure #Alphabet #SubseaCable
#RedCrabs #ChristmasIsland #Migration #RedCrabMigration #Wildlife #Crabs #BBC #News #Amazing #Crustaceans
An amazing video. It’s so good to see we’re letting some creatures survive and do well…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx206pvyld5o?app-referrer=search
Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/christmas-island-shrew-officially-declared-extinct-iucn/

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out from the island since the introduction of invasive species there a century ago. The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) was […]
