UK ministers face criticism over lack of environmental consultation in AI data centre talks
Investigative reports from London say senior ministers held dozens of private meetings with major technology companies without consulting environmental groups about electricity supplies and pressure on the grid.
A giant British three-pin plug serves as a private boardroom. Inside, a minister and technology executives confer beside an AI server. Outside, an anthropomorphic Earth waits with an environmental briefing and the disconnected green-and-yellow earth wire. The electrical metaphor satirises environmental groups being left out of talks about power-hungry AI infrastructure.
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