Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
L0wKeyIt’s being proposed that 10Gw of data centres for AI is to be built over the next couple of years. The *whole* of the UK uses ~30Gw. This is beyond insane.
Also, a nuclear reactor produces ~1Gw. Where are 10 of those coming from in a couple of years. They take decades.
Utter nonsense, the whole thing.
I’m all for progress and capital spending etc, but the AI plans are fundamentally unhinged.