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UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

theguardian.comUK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groupsInvestigation finds dozens of ministers and civil servants moved into AI roles as government developed datacentre expansion plans The UK’s policy on datacentres and AI was developed without any meetings with environmental groups, an investigation has found. The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a “considerable revolving door” shaped the government’s development of “AI growth zones”, a central plank of the former prime minister Keir Starmer’s AI and economic policy, with 38 ministers, senior civil servants and special advisers hired to positions in AI companies between July 2024 and September 2026. Continue reading...

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whatdowewant.bsky.social

@whatdowewant.bsky.social

Never Ever Vote Labour

Holly Brigstocke

@hollybrigstocke.bsky.social

The govt is also very keen to meet known hate groups while closing the door to the trans people they are genociding. The Guardian now complaining now it affects their cause of the week? Tough. You should have thought about this before you enabled it.

Bourgeois mfer

@ghunkinking.bsky.social

I'm not an fan of the U.K. building data centers on its island; their data should be stored and processed in data centers in the US, where it belongs.

Corporate capture.

The MI5 & MI6 report identifying eco-collapse as the UK's major threat was a) hushed up; b) reduced; c) redacted. A ministerial meeting to consider it ended with banned barbecues! It's time politicians went on an educational break to understand ecology. They haven't a clue! This issue reinforces it.