2026 is already the hottest year ever the UK has ever seen, and heatwaves this summer have reportedly led to the deaths of around 30,000 people in Europe alone so far. For anyone living through this brutal demonstration of climate disaster in action the idea of building new gas power plants to burn more fossil fuel, blasting gigantic amounts of new carbon into our air to power AI data centres, may seem absurd and unhinged, like throwing petrol on a blazing wildfire or the actions of a cackling cartoon supervillain. But that is exactly what Big Tech bosses around the world are proposing to do. In the US, Elon Musk plans to build 41 new gas turbines at xAI’s “Colossus 2” data centre in northern Mississippi. So…
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