Microsoft 🤝 Big Oil. #Microsoft announced three projects last month (including one with Chevron) that more than DOUBLES its data center carbon footprint, using enough electricity to power nearly 4 million U.S. homes 🤯
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8 government announcements are being repeated in the media as evidence of a “return to coal”.
But how consequential are they.. really?!🧵
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
Background photo of a computer chip with smoking rising from a Microsoft logo on it. Stand.earth logo in top right corner. Text reads "Microsoft has invested more than $80 billion in building out AI. The real cost is yet to come." "Global Ramifications, Local Impact" REPORT icon.
White background. Text reads “A hyperscale data center can use as much energy as an entire city. Whether that data center runs on fossil fuels or renewable energy matters - a lot. As of right now most Microsoft data centers are in states with grids that are ≥50% dependent on fossil fuels.” Photo of a data center in the center of the image.
Red background. Text reads “600%” “Microsoft's North American AI data center build-out is set to grow by 600% through 2030, and will demand as much electricity as the entire New England Region.” Graph shows exponentially increasing electricity demand starting in fiscal year 24 and estimating as far as fiscal year 30.
White background. Text reads “Unless surging energy demand from Microsoft's data centers is met with round-the-clock renewable electricity, it will lead to a huge increase in climate and local pollution, including extending the life of coal plants as well as new fossil fuel power plants and pipelines to meet the electricity needs of the data centers.” Photo of a polluting data center, with photo credit reading “Credit: Shelley Robbins”.
Our research on Microsoft’s data centers is out and it’s 😬
💡Huge energy demand (as much as New England by 2030!)
⛽️ Fossil fuel reliance (most data centers in states with ≥50% FF grids)
🏫Local impacts (data centers used to justify more gas)
Learn more and take action: stand.earth/microsoft-ai
Microsoft's energy demand for its slop machine, Internet rephrasing data centres is projected to increase 600% this decade
Its annual data centre energy consumption could power New England. All for a product that doesn't know how many B's are in blackberry
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🚨New research🚨Rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion for climate action by ending fossil fuels handouts, making polluters pay, defunding wars, taxing the super rich. There’s no shortage of $$ for action. It’s just in the wrong hands.
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➡️ Read more: oilchange.org/we-can-pay-for-it/
Indian sishers can't fish because of chemicals and pellets for making single use plastics. Is this right?
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Lara de Mesa, as Santander’s Head of Responsible Banking, can stop funding projects that harm Indigenous women and the Amazon.
This #InternationalWomensDay, we call on her to lead with action.
Lara, will you stand with women and protect the Amazon?
“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.” Tolkien
I believe Tolkien said it best
This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
🚨MUST READ: How Trump's Greenland takeover would clear the way for his donors' AI-powered mining company, proposed "crypto city" & oil drilling just banned by the local government.
Wild follow-the-money reporting about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Andreesen & Thiel that finally sheds light on Trump's motive.
🤯 Damascus, Syria tonight.
2025 will be the first year free of Assad tyranny since 1971 — more than half a century.
New data centre energy demand - fueled by a surge in AI technologies - must be powered with #renewables. Even Chat GPT agrees.
New #CoalWire
👉 UK unveils ban plan for new #coal licences
👉 Smog crisis hits India, Pakistan
👉 Trump unveils pro-fossil fuel nominees
👉 Mongolian herders fear new coal highway to China
👉 Vietnamese company pushes for coal imports from Laos
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Pointed and timely analysis by CREA- convenient to blame farmers while ignoring the bigger culprits behind India's #AirQuality crisis ==> Thermal power plants cause 240 times more air pollution than stubble burning www.downtoearth.org.in/pollution/th...
