New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. Photo collage showing smoke and data centers. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: WIRED STAFF; GETTY IMAGES New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects—which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—have the potential to emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

"Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024"

Wild new @mollytaft.com @wired.com piece:

www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

Is this the methylene blue?

Always find it amusing that these knuckle-dragging racists genuinely can't get it into their heads that many of us are positive about immigration *precisely* because we do indeed have friends, family, neighbours from different backgrounds...

Air pollution raises cancer risk beyond the lungs, report warns Breathing polluted air significantly increases the risk of developing and dying from multiple cancers - including liver and breast cancer - according to a new report calling for stricter air quality s...

People living in areas with elevated air pollution are 11% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than those living in areas with cleaner air, study finds.

The sharpest differences were for liver, colorectal, kidney, lung + bladder cancers.

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Nigel Farage calls for parking charges to be scrapped on North East high streets Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was on the campaign trail on high streets in South Shields and Gateshead on Tuesday, ahead of May's local council elections

In Newcastle on street parking costs the council £9,260,871.63 per year.
If on street parking is 'free' that would still be a cost that needs to be covered. It's roughly the same as a 6% rise in council tax, on top of existing rises.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

This reporting suggests Bridget Phillipson's legislation will muzzle those of us who want to protest against Far Right speakers who say our Black family are intellectually inferior and our Trans family are all potential sex offenders and are mentally ill.

What an unbelievably terrible Government.

A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely.

Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

The sooner the better.
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Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

"We accidentally made an animated graphic for Reform and then did a party political broadcast for them by mistake."

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

The BBC showing who their loyalty lies behind at the local elections.

It’s past time for Robbin Gibb to go.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Following on from last week's bs "investigation" which absolutely misrepresented the scale and nature of people potentially claiming asylum under false grounds, it is exceptionally hard to see how this is in any way acceptable and not blatant bias. This is an advert not a news piece.

I checked this too.

*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.

*No other* party logo displayed.

In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Unaccountable thuggery from Manchester Police

1/ Saturday saw Greater Manchester Police deliberately target anti-fascist protesters. Whilst facilitating racists Britain First.

We have reports of multiple incidents of unprovoked violence, deliberately not wearing ID, snatching masks without warning.

A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.

We uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. It has operated under the radar for decades.

Until now.

Bacteria are weaving forever chemicals directly into their cells Forever chemicals may be entering living cells as bacteria weave PFAS into their membranes, revealing a hidden pollution pathway.

#PFAS - #ForeverChemicals

Extremely concerning research on this #PoisonedPlanet
www.earth.com/news/bacteri...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts

Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit

By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

«To say that the verbiage and phrasing of this ad functions as a dog whistle for White supremacy and White nationalism would be an insult to dog whistles ... it is a bullhorn—and a sign that Palantir isn’t just willing to openly signal allegiance to fascism, they aim to leverage and recruit on it.»

Starmer's disastrous '£1bn' US-UK pharma deal may actually end up costing £64bn Investigation finds that Starmer's estimates of the Trump NHS deal are way off - it won't cost £1bn but could balloon to as much as £64bn

While we're on the workings of the UK government today, a moment to reflect on the US pharmaceuticals deal which even if these numbers feel exaggerated is something that really needs parliamentary scrutiny that successive governments have denied for trade deals www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The stunning underwater world that’s at risk as the Iran war drags on | CNN Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf is a one-of-a-kind marine ecosystem that’s home to dolphins, sea turtles and coral. How do oil slicks affect them?

A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz

@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:

www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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Thinking Live with Phillips O'Brien on War in Iran and Ukraine A recording from my conversation with Phillips O'Brien

What does the Iran war have to do with sustaining the Russian economy? Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine. I spoke with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social about Iran and Russia.
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Enhertu is giving women more time in Scotland and around the world.
But NICE denied it in England, Wales & NI, saying we’re not “cost effective.”
We’ve lost friends waiting.
As of April 2026, the money is now there. We need to drug companies to resubmit Enhertu immediately.
#metastaticbreastcancer

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

This is very generous indeed. 40k small boat crossings should be common knowledge for a professional journalist.