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The UK is forced to produce ⅓ of it's electricity from burning gas. But it should not have to. And politicians are like: No comment!

But what happens when AI datacenters are thrown into the energy mix? Is AI a direct threat to energy security and independents, or an opportunity to accelerate new wind, storage & transmission capacity? Maybe it is both of those things, but the consequence of not doing the latter could be dire.

"Distinctively British" How will Healey's AI funding plan actually translate into reality? The government has already said Britain will need at least 6 GW of AI datacentre capacity by 2030, proposing AI Growth Zones, each supporting at least 500 MW, with at least one eventually exceeding 1 GW.

"Distinctively British" How will Healey's AI funding plan actually translate into reality? The government has already said Britain will need at least 6 GW of AI datacentre capacity by 2030, proposing AI Growth Zones, each supporting at least 500 MW, with at least one eventually exceeding 1 GW.

The ‘poison’ of datacenters: "Accord­ing to the National Energy Sys­tem Oper­ator (NESO), there were, as of last month, 28 pro­pos­als in the con­sent queue for the grid in Scot­land, rep­res­ent­ing nearly 8.9 gigawatts, a fig­ure around twice Scot­land’s cur­rent winter peak demand" (The Herald)

"Distinctively British" How will Healey's AI funding plan actually translate into reality? The government has already said Britain will need at least 6 GW of AI datacentre capacity by 2030, proposing AI Growth Zones, each supporting at least 500 MW, with at least one eventually exceeding 1 GW.

What the government is saying and what remains unanswered...

"Distinctively British" How will Healey's AI funding plan actually translate into reality? The government has already said Britain will need at least 6 GW of AI datacentre capacity by 2030, proposing AI Growth Zones, each supporting at least 500 MW, with at least one eventually exceeding 1 GW.

Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The UK is forced to produce ⅓ of it's electricity from burning gas. But it should not have to. And politicians are like: No comment!

And don't forget digging up streets and upgrading local substations. National Grid hasn't been very good at this so better think about re-nationalizing it...

This simple fact is UK's most urgent energy priority: 30-35% of UK's electricity is generated from burning gas because the National Grid cannot deliver cheap clean wind-generated electricity from Scotland down to London. How come it took so long for politicians to wake up about it?

The UK is forced to produce ⅓ of it's electricity from burning gas. But it should not have to. And politicians are like: No comment!

And what about household that rent?

The UK is forced to produce ⅓ of it's electricity from burning gas. But it should not have to. And politicians are like: No comment!

On top of that, UK households are still burning gas for heating and hot water. Eliminating all of that (hypothically) would actually DOUBLE the entire UK demand for electricity.

The UK is forced to produce ⅓ of it's electricity from burning gas. But it should not have to. And politicians are like: No comment!

Just some more boring news about A.I. taking over the world...

Two kinds of humans: First kind are those who want to protect children, allow them grow up, learn, love, organize and be the ones responsible. Second kind are those who desire to correct, punish and control children, never wanting them grow up to be the bigger people.

How awful it is, that murderous racists steal religious symbols and use them for their own evil ends. But when so-called progressives on the left take those same articles of faith imbued with sacred meaning and hand them over to those evil doers for their own exclusive use, that is an abomination.

Trades unions' warning over Triple Lock: Burnham's Labour government must act quickly to face down the looming crisis of Pensioner poverty, retirees facing rent rises, and the lowest state pension in Europe coupled with occupational pensions not meeting cost-of-living inflation expectations.

Inside the conference hall, Labour Party members fawn over their new leaders and applaud this woman's bravery. While outside, the-same-Labour government, arrests this same pensioner in her 90s for holding a piece of paper, because it passed a law making her a terrorist. This is so fucked up.

See how quickly this Labour politician snaps back with a disgraceful lie, perpetuating the lie that is denying a future to a million young working people and undermining our country's real economy.