Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

Dear Patrons

Here is the latest Honest Government Ad you've helped us to make!

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

(And here's the Instagram version)

The Ai data centre frenzy / hype / bullshit is taking over the world; yet another example of how much of the fuckery we're seeing today is caused or exarcerbated by the rising broligarchy.

Which of course makes it a perfect topic for another international Government™ HGA.

As you probably know, I try to avoid topics that are already getting lots of news coverage. The "Data Centre boom" is certainly one of those topics. However, there has not been enough attention given to the relationship between Big Tech and Big Gas.

Because let's not forget, this data centre story unfolding against the backdrop of a spiraling climate crisis. Half of Europe is on fire, so is Canada; and a monstruous El Niño is on the way. (Check out Dave Borlace's terrifying video about this).

Which is why the fact that so many of these new data-centres are going to be powered by fossil-gas in Australia, the US, Canada, UK and Europe, is a massive concern. Not just for these countries but for the whole world.

And that's why I decided to focus this HGA on shining a light on the unholy marriage forming between the Ai and gas industries; and specifically on Data Centres Australia: the new (and until now, little-known) lobby group that's been formed to broker it in Australia.

If you'd like to dig into this more, I highly recommend reading the Energy Vampires report by Ketan Joshi and Greenpeace, which informed a lot of this HGA. I've also included links to further reading in the YouTube video description.

Most importantly:

if you are concerned about what's happening, remember that millions of other people are, too. In what is the clear silver lining in this shitshow, people everywhere - from London to Perth, Texas to Vancouver - are coming together to say No (or, in Australia, Nauwr).

So if you want to do something about it, now's the time to join or form a community group to call on local/state/federal governments to impose a data centre moratorium, until proper legislation and regulations are put in place. (Sarah Connor approves this message)

As always, thank you to each and everyone of you for making it possible to cover these topics and calls to action in the Honest Government Ads. You are what makes this possible.

Oh and we're stoked to welcome back Zoë, who travelled all the way to WA so we could make this HGA together. (Thank you to our dear friends Charlie and Brenna for putting her up). I know many of you missed Zoë, so I hope you enjoy seeing her on the HGAs again!

Tomorrow we'll publish the vertical version on Insta/Tiktok/FB etc.

Until then, take care.

Giordano

PS. Thank you to everyone who shared their feedback on the audio preview the other day. I hope you like how it's turned out!