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Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim (www.theguardian.com)
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A datacentre company that said it would power a massive AI development near Glasgow with renewable energy has admitted that the scheme will be entirely served by the National Grid.

The company remains in receipt of £202m of public money in the form of wealth guarantees from Britain’s national wealth fund.

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[–] 18 points 3 days ago

AI and datacwnter bro's were ... Lying? Say of ain't so! Where are my pearls, I need to clutch something immediately!

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    [–] 12 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Now DataVita, which was supposed to bring 3,400 jobs to Lanarkshire by building a 500MW datacentre

    How the hell is a single data centre expected to bring 3,400 jobs?! Sounds like DataVita's claims across the board need to be reviewed.

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    • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    And now they're getting fined and increasing amount every day until they stop their reliance on the grid, right? .... Right?

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    [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    What could possibly go wrong?

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    [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It'd be a real shame if it burned to the ground.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago*

    you can get drones for around $25 these days. and they can usually lift around 1 pound.

    1 pound of thermite should have the explosive power of a 1/4 stick of dynamite. added benefits are the difficulty to extinguish it. halon shouldn't have any effect on it as the reaction is exothermic.

    scaled up, with around $3000 in materials it should be sufficient to burn down 500sqft. if pinpointed properly, that could actually triple or quadruple.

    though it's probably better to target the power grid, generators, and network connections and could probably be done for around $500-1000 and take it out of commission for at least a week if not months if the backlog for parts is extensive.

    a coordinated effort that targets an entire region would likely yield the best results.

    at least, that's what my "superior intelligence" said.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Exactly the same bullshit as housing.

    Gets permission to build a new estate with 25% social housing. Once a single workman is on site, 'Oh, we can only do 5% now and if you complain we'll just leave the project'.

    Its all lies and deceit with these people and there being no punative action to prevent this happening again.

    They said they could do it with renewables, they can't. They lied. They built on false promises and I don't accept the 'we going to invest in Solar and wind the future'.

    Watch how they rinse normal people's supply to blackout while they still have all the lights on.

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