Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.

Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.

I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.

Enjoy:

Links ->

The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights

Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/

Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis

More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/

Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html

A nice case study of a *defeated* 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/

#ElonMusk #XAI #Grok #AI #Datacentres #Racist #Chatbot #epochai #data #Fossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Fossilgas #Methane

@MelissaBenyon Yes, without key pieces of context for that very misleading final quote:

“This [North West Shelf] project is subject to those reforms, which means this plant is required to bring their emissions down each year and reach net zero by 2050 under the safeguard mechanism.”

Context: by "their emissions", the (unnamed) government spokesperson does *not* include the >4b tonnes of CO2 emissions that will result when the gas extracted from the project is burned (called 'scope 3 emissions' in technical jargon), and is only referring the (far smaller) emissions that result from the extraction process itself. However, most readers of the article are unlikely to be aware of this crucial distinction and so miss the verbal sleight of hand at play.

Also missing: even these latter emissions are very likely underestimated by current Australian government methods of accounting for gas extraction, which are not based on the latest research into the scale of methane leakage that occurs during extraction, processing and transport of #FossilGas.

Also also missing: the safeguard mechanism allows #Woodside to 'reduce' 'their emissions' via dodgy #CarbonOffset scams that frequently fail to do anything like what is claimed on the tin.
#Auspol #ClimateJournalism #NorthWestShelf #DirtyEnergy

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

“a capitulation…” Hon Carmen Lawrence #auspol #climatecrisis #FossilGas #Woodside

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @thejapantimes story.

They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not #China - despite the latter being the main driver of #LNG growth and the country signing the most long-term deals with #Australian #fossilfuel companies.

And since I published the article, only the #Aussies haven't responded or shared the piece.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/06/01/energy/china-lng-surge/

#LNG #climate #fossilgas #naturalGas

Saving Electricity and Gas - Avoiding 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.

Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.

/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain

#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2

Saving Electricity and Gas - Saving energy and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

China's going to be fine.

"In China, people burned crude oil and gas for heat and light as early as 500 B.C. By the fourth century A.D., they were drilling for these natural resources and transporting it via bamboo pipes."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

#China #energy #FossilFuels #FossilOil #FossilGas #bamboo

Saving Electricity and Gas - Saving energy and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Saving Electricity and Gas - Saving energy and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

"Today, the Barossa Production Operations Environment Plan was approved by the federal offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA, marking the final and most significant environmental approval for #Santos’ offshore Barossa gas project.
This approval permits Santos to emit 274 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the 25 year life of the project.
Santos’ Barossa project has been described as one of the dirtiest gas projects in the world due to its high carbon dioxide content." - NT Enviro Centre press release

#Fossilfuels #FossilGas #Ausvotes
https://www.ecnt.org.au/climate_disaster_santos_toxic_barossa_gas_project_given_the_green_light

Aussie Election Energy debate? Worried about gas prices, turning on your heater? Costs of Living? Watch this chatty video on Big Gas Taking the Piss.
We are literally giving away our gas to foreign owned companies who mostly don't pay tax and this has been facilitated by both Labor and Liberal Governments.
Beer drinkers pay more excise each year than tax raised by the Petroleum Resource Rental Tax (PRRT). Do you think this passes the pub test?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObjpuSeXi70

#WillsVotes #ausvotes #ausvotes2025 #fossilgas

Saving Electricity and Gas - Saving energy and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

@Sektorenkoppler Yes, getting rid of #fossilGas feels good! Ours went in December...

Saving Electricity and Gas - We cut energy use and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Saving Electricity and Gas - How we cut energy use and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Saving Electricity and Gas - How we cut energy use and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Saving Electricity and Gas - How we cut energy use and 6 tonnes of CO2 per year at home! #electricity #fossilGas #cutCarbon - https://m.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity.html

Your regular reminders that
-#Texas is a #cleanenergy leader
-Clean energy politics are more than red/blue
-🍊 attacks on clean energy hurt red states

🤠"In 2024, Texas produced almost twice as much wind and solar electricity as California."

Leads in #wind, #solar, and #batteries

TX can't get new #fossilgas pwr plants built despite offering huge state incentives 🥸

#climatechange #climatehope #energytransition #uspolitics #uspol

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/texas-broke-its-solar-wind-and-battery-records-in-one-spring-week