Stop dirty data centres
Big Tech’s ambition to build more and more energy-hungry data centres is putting the UK’s climate targets at risk, and the Government is letting them. Now is the time to act.
On Friday and Saturday 27-28 February, communities challenging hyperscale data centres where they live will come together for the first time to take coordinated action. They will be supported by groups concerned about the environmental and social impacts of data centres.
If enough of us take action wherever we are, we can send a strong message to the UK Government and Big Tech industry that we don’t want data centres at the expense of local communities or a safe climate. Every action, no matter how small, will make a difference. Find a local action below or show your support digitally by posting on social media with #StopDirtyDataCentres
Data centres put a massive strain on our finite water and power supplies, imposing on local communities and jeopardising our move to clean power by 2030. A single new data centre will have energy requirements equivalent to an entire town, and there are more than 100 planned in the UK!
Right now, the UK Government is rigging the planning system to accelerate planning permission for these huge data centres, excluding local people from decision making about their own communities.
Will you show your support for these communities and join them in taking action to stop dirty data centres?
- In North Ockenden, Havering communities are anxious as they wait for their council to push through Europe’s largest data centre on green belt land.
- In South Wales, community activists near Maesteg are campaigning against a proposal to build four new nuclear power stations to power data centres.
- In Tower Hamlets, the local Bengali community are fighting developers who are trying to impose a data centre on a site that the community need for social housing.