Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ on Nostr: Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical ...
Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
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