Stop Drax, Stop Dirty Data Centres! Data centres’ huge demand for energy can’t be allowed to prop up dirty polluting tree-burning power stations like Drax. We can’t sacrifice a safe climate for AI pipedreams. The business behind Drax, the UK’s single largest source of carbon emissions, which burns biomass i.e. trees to produce electricity, is proposing to build a new AI data centre next door to its power station in Yorkshire, providing Drax with justification to continue its dirty polluting ways and its harm to forests, wildlife, communities and the climate. Drax hopes to benefit from political support aimed at data centres whilst undermining previous government commitments to scale back Drax’s use. We can’t let the expansion of data centres prop-up dirty energy and undermine climate targets. Please add your name to our petition and stand against big tech’s dangerous deals with dirty energy.

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Data centres’ huge demand for energy can’t be allowed to prop up dirty polluting tree-burning power stations like Drax.
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🌟 Great coverage of the increasingly effective grassroots campaign to halt the expansion of the global wood pellet industry!

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Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...

🔥🏭The UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for Government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees!🌳🔥🏭

🔥Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🌳🔥
#StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax #AI

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Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...

The UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for Government support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire. 🌳🔥🏭

Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 👍🌳🔥
#StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax

A group of seated protestors (some in white labcoats) hold placards explaining the need to stop the Drax Power Station from generating electricity by burning wood. Wildlife biologist and broadcaster Chris Packham is at the front, next to someone in a bear costume (another biologist is inside, though not visible)

@sellathechemist Join #Sci4XR, #ChrisPackham and others to #AxeDrax and #StopBurningTrees

Powering an AI data centre by burning trees at Drax would be a DISASTER.
@SciTechgovuk listen to the science and say NO to Drax’s dirty data centre.
#StopBurningTrees

Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...

📣Urgent action: the UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees! 🌳🔥😮

🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax

#ForestsAreNotFuel #StopBurningTrees #Greenwashing #DangerousDistraction #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #BigBadBioEnergy

On Bioeconomy Day at COP30, here's what you need to know about biomass energy in Latin America and the harm it does to communities and nature

📖 globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisation-or-disposession

#bigbadbiomass #stopburningtrees #bioeconomy #COP30 #bioeconomyday

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

Drax Power Station doesn’t provide low-carbon electricity generation; it is the UK’s biggest single carbon emitter.

Let’s be clear: the future isn’t burning forests for energy, there’s nothing clean or green about #Drax.
#AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees

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Drax’s data centre would ‘burn a tree every time it’s used’.
@SciTechgovuk say NO to Drax’s proposal.
No AI powered by burning forests.
#StopBurningTrees

If the UK is serious about net zero, it must say NO to Drax’s AI data centre.
No more subsidies.
No more greenwash.
No more trees up in smoke.
@SciTechgovuk
#StopBurningTrees

If the UK is serious about net zero, it must say NO to Drax’s AI data centre.
No more subsidies.
No more greenwash.
No more trees up in smoke.
@SciTechgovuk
#StopBurningTrees

Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax.

#StopBurningTrees
#AxeDrax

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Drax has taken billions in subsidies while increasing emissions.
Now they want @NorthYorksCA to help them expand into AI?
North Yorkshire residents deserve climate action — not green spin.
#StopBurningTrees

Drax has received billions in subsidies to burn wood pellets from overseas forests.
Now @UniOfYork wants to help them build an AI data centre?
This is a betrayal of climate science.
#StopBurningTrees

Drax’s data centre would ‘burn a tree every time it’s used’.
@SciTechgovuk say NO to Drax’s proposal.
No AI powered by burning forests.
#StopBurningTrees

Powering an AI data centre by burning trees at Drax would be a DISASTER.
@SciTechgovuk listen to the science and say NO to Drax’s dirty data centre.
#StopBurningTrees

Powering an AI data centre by burning trees at Drax would be a DISASTER.
@SciTechgovuk listen to the science and say NO to Drax’s dirty data centre.
#StopBurningTrees

Urgent: Please ask your MP to speak out against new funding for Drax’s tree burning The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched an investigation into the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax, over concerns about its sourcing of wood pellets to burn at its power station in Yorkshire. This investigation relates to shocking revelations from BBC Panorama and Conservation North about Drax’s continued logging of previously untouched primary forests in British Columbia in Canada and Drax’s £25m payment to Ofgem last year for misreporting its data on its sourcing of wood from Canadian forests. Drax already receives around £2m per day in renewable subsidies from our energy bills to burn trees and the Government has recently undone stricter greenhouse gas emissions rules so that it can grant massive new renewable subsidies to Drax when the current subsidies end in 2027. At the same time, the Government is considering whether to grant Drax even more public money for its joint funding bid with the University of York, North Yorkshire Council and North Yorkshire Combined Authority to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre at Drax as part of an ‘Artificial Intelligence Growth Zone’. If these new subsidies go ahead and Drax’s AI data centre bid is successful, it will mean more forest destruction, more pollution of communities, more harm to nature and even more climate-wrecking emissions - all at our expense. The Government has not yet finalised the contract with Drax for the new subsidies and it still has time to reconsider its plans to waste around £1.8 billion of our money on a big polluter that has been fined multiple times for air pollution violations and that is now under being investigated by the UK’s financial watchdog. Please contact your MP today and ask them to speak up for forests, wildlife, communities and the climate by calling on the Government to reject Drax’s AI data centre funding bid and to halt plans for Drax’s new subsidies.

Today is the International Day of Action on Big Biomass

Please ask your UK MP to speak against Drax’s tree burning funding: tinyurl.com/yddsnsx7 & sign the petition against Drax's tree powered data centre plans tinyurl.com/y8b3ah3u

#CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees

Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests​. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees

From the American South to the English North, our message is the same: the profits of Drax must NOT be put before the health and wellbeing of Gloster residents.

#AirPollution #AxeDrax #StopBurningTrees #BiomassScam

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs

Its not rocket science! Last thing we need is more rocket science... #stoptheharm #stopfossilfuels #StopBurningTrees #bringsciencetopolitics
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/12/carbon-...

UK power company Drax investigated over source of ‘renewable’ fuel Move by UK watchdog FCA relates to historical statements on wood pellets for power station from January 2022 to March 2024

Wow, not before time but great to see investigation of #Drax by #FCA #StopBurningTrees
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Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says Environment minister says blazes are proof of country’s vulnerability to global heating as fires burn across Europe

I know! Let's #stopfossilfuels and #StopBurningTrees! #climatebreakdown
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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

Say No to new AI Data Centre powered by Drax

#AxeDrax
#StopBurningTrees
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@axedrax.bsky.social
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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at #Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.

Say NO! Sign and share!
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The govt wants to force through an £1.8bn in public subsidies to Drax until at least 2031. 🤯📛

"Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal...
Every pound spent subsidising tree burning is a pound not invested in technologies that could actually deliver net zero."
#stopburningtrees

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