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Planned London datacentre would emit more carbon per year than 27,000 transatlantic flights

Planning documents for a vast AI data facility on London's green belt show annual emissions topping one million tonnes of CO2, raising serious questions about whether AI infrastructure can ever be squared with net-zero commitments.

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Big Tech's AI Data Centres Now Emit as Much Carbon as a Third of France

Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped out 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide last year. The main culprit: building more data centres to feed AI demand.

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