@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social
2026-10-22 10:36 UTC
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
My current thinking on #AI #DataCentres is much the same as oil and gas fields…the media tricks us with window dressing - either ‘it’s going to deliver huge benefits and financial savings’ or ‘why are our politicians so spineless to stop it?’.
But actually we need to focus on the evil means of legal warfare that these corporations with bottomless pockets are perpetrating against governments across the spectrum to get their way. Politicians are hostages.
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social 2026-10-22 12:19
@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk This is what happens in terms of #BigOil companies who use Investor State Dispute System (ISDS) to sue governments for environmental legislation that they deem as lost opportunities to make money. As a result of these secretive tribunals #fossilfuel companies have been paid over US$87 billion (£64 billion) by countries since 1998. Who’s to say thst something very similar is not happening with #AI #DataCentres ? https://theconversation.com/how-big-oil-companies-can-slow-the-green-transition-by-suing-governments-that-ban-fossil-fuels-281972