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.

@christineburns

Say no.

Just say no.

Accept no yesses. Defeat yes men, they'll all be men. Say no.

A company in Canada said they were building a crypto crap tastic factory and wanted power delivered.
The government said, "no"
BC government taken to court.
Court said piss off.

Say no. Vote to defeat yes men, any party. Say it LOUD, directly to a face, and with a paper letter.

No more data centres, topped out, all done. No more AI shyte either. Say no.

@kevinrns @christineburns Never thought Id root for a hydro company but hell yeah.

@Plaidbaron @christineburns

Hydro in Canada means an electric utility, the great majority of Canadian electricity is still hydro, over 60%, and several big provinces are 90% powered by hydroelectric dams.

@kevinrns @christineburns Im aware. Im Canadian. Im just not a big fan of most of our power companies.

@Plaidbaron @christineburns

Governments. Hydro, except in deluded give our stuff to billionaires Nova Scotia, is generally public, abused by selfservative politicians.

When youre being ripped off by energy, its the government you change in Canada.