Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian.
The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres – one 52-hectare (130 acre) project in Thurrock and another at an airfield in North Weald, both in Essex. To do so, developers are required to submit planning documents calculating how much carbon these projects will emit as a proportion of the UK’s total carbon footprint.
In both cases, they appear to have compared one year of the proposed datacentre’s emissions with the UK’s entire five-year carbon budget, understating the significance of their emissions by a factor of five, according to experts at the tech justice nonprofit Foxglove.
“Misstated” through an honest error or “blatantly lied”? My money’s on the second.
Lying requires consciousness awareness of what you’re saying. Slop cultists do not have that. Its why laws don’t apply to them either.
on purpose
The word is lie
“Significantly Misstate”
I hate this fascist euphemistic language.
So the rich and their bought government get AI surveillance data center while everyone else gets meat rations and carbon credits.
Wtf.
Welcome to the illusion of “freedom” and “democracy” under capitalism.
Yeah. Democracy for the wealthy and corporate interests and capitalism for everyone else.
