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[-] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “Datacentres are a vital part of our economy and our everyday lives, helping us interact with the services we need, while driving growth and renewal for communities. We will enable the development and growth of new industries, such as datacentres, by building unprecedented amounts of clean power.”

By using beautiful clean coal?

Also this is a nice chance for all seeing renewable energy as reality today (not nuclear) to show us.

[-] alsje@mstdn.social 3 points 1 month ago

@silence7
Big Tech from America ruins our landscapes! And makes global warmth even higher!
Landowners/communities are the only people that can stop it!
Not selling out their land means no New Datacentre!

How is it that we're missing our carbon targets? I guess we'll never know.

this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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