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Anti-Trump Protesters Take Aim at ‘Naive’ US-UK AI Deal
Thousands marched in London to protest President Donald Trump’s second state visit. Among them were many environmental activists unhappy with Britain’s new AI deal with the US.
Clive Teague, who was at the protest supporting Extinction Rebellion Waverley and Borders in Surrey, says that this AI deal is one of many things the government is getting wrong. “We can’t keep burning fossil fuels to keep feeding into these data centers, because it’ll swamp the requirements for the rest of the world.” This sentiment was echoed on the march by other environmental groups, like Greenpeace, which objects to huge data centers being approved without what it considers to be a proper assessment of the impacts on local water systems and the power grid. “The multi-billion-pound tech giants building new data centers should be forced to take some responsibility for funding solutions, whether it’s cooling methods using much less water or running on new, clean renewable power.
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