Ally Miller
Δρομογράφος‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest #DataCentre hub leaves town sweltering
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering
Glyn Moody‘Slough is like an experiment’: Europe’s largest #datacentre hub leaves town sweltering - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/slough-is-like-an-experiment-europes-largest-datacentre-hub-leaves-town-sweltering "Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C" #ai
Debacle#TIL, that #Wikipedia does not run on #bigTech #dataCentres, but have their own #Debian servers. That's the spirit!
While others sail under the false colours of #digitalSovereignty or #digitalAutonomy, but put us in the chains of #hyperscalers.
Kevin RussellStop data centres by blocking munuciple regs, denying water, suing city hall, demonstrating, removing right or ways, returning roads to forest.
Get Dragons cancelled, tell the truth about O'Leary, let a thousand roadblocks bloom.
Let a thousand roadblocks bloom.
Let a thousand roadblocks bloom.
Vibewire MagazineMelbourne’s live data centre capacity grew 37% in 2025 http://dlvr.it/TTCc7j #BreakingNews #DataCentre #Geelong #Melbourne
AJ SadauskasA lot has been written about the environmental cost of the AI-driven data centre boom. That includes the massive environmental cost in terms of water, carbon pollution, and energy use.
But a hidden cost is land.
In the middle of a housing crisis, data centres are using a lot of land that could be used for housing.
The latest example is in Geelong, where data centre operator NextDC just land-banked 169 hectares of land thst had been zoned for residential housing.
For folks reading this outside of Australia: Geelong is the second biggest city in the state of Victoria, after Melbourne.
The city's population is booming, with its metro area growing from 180,000 people in 2010 to 280,000 in 2020.
That's a rate of 100,000 people in just 10 years.
"Australian data centre giant NextDC has bought $165 million worth of land earmarked for thousands of new homes on the outskirts of Geelong, in a move likely to intensify debate over the rapid expansion of such centres around Victoria.
"Property settlement documents seen by The Age reveal a new subsidiary of ASX-listed NextDC finalised the purchase of 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, about 13 kilometres north-west of the Geelong CBD, this month.
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"The masterplan for Lovely Banks, which is within the Northern Geelong Growth Area, allows for more than 15,000 new homes over a number of neighbourhoods."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-165m-land-grab-how-a-tech-giant-is-taking-over-a-future-suburb-20260618-p6082d.html
#AI #GenAI #FuckAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenter #DataCentre #NextDC #Anthropic #Claude #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Gemini #Google #Microsoft #Copilot #AIbubble #Enshittification
But a hidden cost is land.
In the middle of a housing crisis, data centres are using a lot of land that could be used for housing.
The latest example is in Geelong, where data centre operator NextDC just land-banked 169 hectares of land thst had been zoned for residential housing.
For folks reading this outside of Australia: Geelong is the second biggest city in the state of Victoria, after Melbourne.
The city's population is booming, with its metro area growing from 180,000 people in 2010 to 280,000 in 2020.
That's a rate of 100,000 people in just 10 years.
"Australian data centre giant NextDC has bought $165 million worth of land earmarked for thousands of new homes on the outskirts of Geelong, in a move likely to intensify debate over the rapid expansion of such centres around Victoria.
"Property settlement documents seen by The Age reveal a new subsidiary of ASX-listed NextDC finalised the purchase of 169 hectares in Lovely Banks, about 13 kilometres north-west of the Geelong CBD, this month.
...
"The masterplan for Lovely Banks, which is within the Northern Geelong Growth Area, allows for more than 15,000 new homes over a number of neighbourhoods."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-165m-land-grab-how-a-tech-giant-is-taking-over-a-future-suburb-20260618-p6082d.html
#AI #GenAI #FuckAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenter #DataCentre #NextDC #Anthropic #Claude #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Gemini #Google #Microsoft #Copilot #AIbubble #Enshittification
Cut off the water access, change the zoning, fire the city council, get electricity cut off. Find a thousand ways to .stop a thousand parts of the project, disallow roads, enforce environmental regs.
Make them fill out a form that can only be found in an office without an address.
Let a thousand roadblocks bloom.
#dataCentre #dataCenter #ai #resist #prevent #close #epstein #billionaire
Data centre boom sparks warning to consider global location climate risks http://dlvr.it/TTBhcm #Australia #Climatechange #DataCentre #Uncategorized
South Australia will accept the data centres Western Sydney can’t handle http://dlvr.it/TTBdmJ #BreakingNews #DataCentre #Adelaide #InligoNetworks
