A company called #VoltaGrid is attempting to build a massive #ai #datacentre and #LNG #powerplant in our community.

Voltagrid takes funding from #Blackstone and #Halliburton!

https://voltagrid.com/voltagrid-announces-1-billion-strategic-equity-investment-from-blackstone-and-halliburton-to-fund-growth-and-acquisition-of-propell

#SaveLorenville #FuckAI #FuckFossilFuels #FuckBillionaires

“A 15,000 sq metre #DataCentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its impact on culturally significant sites. The three-storey, 120-megawatt #GreenSquare datacentre in the town of #Hazelmere had been intended to power #CloudComputing and the acceleration of #ArtificialIntelligence, but faced fierce community backlash.

A City of #Swan council review of the proposed development, which was to be located 15km east of #Perth, attracted almost 1,900 public submissions. The #council last week released its responsible authority report into the datacentre, in which council staff recommended rejecting the proposal.

In the event of a power outage, the noise of the #DieselGenerators needed to keep the centre in operation would exceed allowable daytime and night-time levels, the council found. A nearby #school and local #residents would have faced the noise had the generators been in operation.”

#AI / #economics / #Externalities / #Australia <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/15/developer-withdraws-plans-for-perth-datacentre-after-fierce-community-opposition>

Gobind Urges Data Centre Industry To Address Noise, Sustainability Concerns From The Public #datacentre #gobindsingh #news #nextdc

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/392783/gobind-data-centre-industry-address-public-concerns/

What is the footprint of a datacenter on global warming ? on minerals depletion ? on air quality ?

Those are some of the the root questions we need to answer to better grasp the actual footprint of tech infrastructures, including genAI, cloud services, and so on.

Life Cycle Assessment is an important methodology that enables to assess this footprint on multiple environmental criteria.

#datacentre #datacenter #datacenters #climateChange #lca

How can the EU #DataCentre rating scheme serve as a meaningful #sustainability tool if it ignores local #climate realities and water vs energy trade-off? 🌍

Data centres in the Nordics and Southern Europe operate under fundamentally different conditions. ❄️☀️

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