Demand = Death

As the world burns under deadly heat waves, fires and drought, Big Tech Capital and their government enablers have decided to add more fuel to the fire.From the Financial Times: "An FT analysis of 60 of the largest planned data centres being built in the US by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta found that they could together produce 101.5mn tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year once fully operational, based on the most recent snapshot of US power generation. That would be equivalent to about 7 per cent of US power-sector emissions in 2025 — the annual emissions of 27 coal plants or 24mn petrol-powered cars." Most of these emissions are new gas fired generators but there are also those aging coal plants that were slated to be de-comissioned but are now being extended. All this for a technology which will provide...certain benefits? some advantages? a better life? None of that is clear. We do know it is propping up the U.S. economy. Then there is insurance, where governments are becoming the insurer of last resort. "Climate impacts are no longer a marginal or far-future risk, but a structural macro-fiscal problem today. They will rapidly get more expensive in Europe because it is the world’s fastest-warming continent (EEA, 2024)." For some reason the movement against data centers prefers not to focus on climate impacts. They generally focus on water issues or noise or electricity bills going up. In fact conservative environmentalists urge capaigners not to use the word climate, that it triggers people who might otherwise support some policy. This is exactly why activists must use the climate argument continuously. Over and over and over. But the argument has to include capitalism as a failed system.