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Inside the Plot to Cover Europe with Gas-Powered AI Data Centres

Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels.
Gas turbine manufacturers are confident they will win the battle over whether Europe’s AI boom will be powered by fossil fuels.
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Danielle Smith Is Betraying Rural Alberta To Build Gas-Powered Data Centres
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The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.

The premier is tossing aside the constituents who voted for her to grant favours to tech and fossil fuel executives.
us/Event | The Trillion-Gallon Time Bomb: Inside the Oil Industry’s Wastewater Crisis
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Join us for an April 28 discussion on how failures to properly regulate oilfield wastewater disposal now threaten public health and the environment.

Join us for an April 28 discussion on how failures to properly regulate oilfield wastewater disposal now threaten public health and the environment.
An oil well blowout shooting a mixture of oil, water, and gas over 100 feet in the air west of Toyah, Texas on October 4, 2024.
uk/Nigel Farage Attacks X as ‘Dangerous’ Despite His MPs Pocketing £55,000 From Elon Musk’s Platform
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The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site.

The Reform leader said his candidates are being racially abused on X, yet his MPs have made big sums from the site.
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uk/Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources
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A-third of the Reform leader’s income has come from overseas interests since he became an MP.

A-third of the Reform leader’s income has come from overseas interests since he became an MP.
Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
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uk/Orbán Allies Awarded £57 Million from Hungary State Oil Giant Days Before Election
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For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza.

For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza.
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French PR Executive Behind Facebook Network Spreading Heat Pump Hate
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A string of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a “lawn mower that never stops” and depict installers as “environmental fraudsters” and “swindlers”.
A string of inauthentic accounts compare clean heating technology to a “lawn mower that never stops” and depict installers as “environmental fraudsters” and “swindlers”.
uk/Reform Donor Expands Fossil Fuel Portfolio to £300 Million
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Hedge fund owner and media boss Jeremy Hosking has increased his oil, gas and coal shares by more than half this year.
Hedge fund owner and media boss Jeremy Hosking has increased his oil, gas and coal shares by more than half this year.
uk/Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
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Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.
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Live tracker of the Reform leader’s personal income.
Live tracker of the Reform leader’s personal income.
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Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
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Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

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Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)
Background The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is a think tank based in Budapest. It is Hungary’s largest private educational institution. It is closely affiliated with Viktor Orbán’s governme...
James Orr
Credentials  BA Classics, University of Oxford.“Dr James Orr,” Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, accessed 08.01.2025. Archived December 4, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vH...
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