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Why do the Greens hate AI datacentres?
28 July 2026Apparently, AI datacentres turn fresh water into sludge.
That's the claim being made by Green's co-leader Chloe Swarbrick.
They also use horrendous amounts of electricity and we're so short of power that the National government is planning to build new fossil-fueled power generation that requires a billion-dollar LNG terminal to handle the gas on which it will run.
On the basis of these claims, the Greens want a moritorium on the construction of AI datacentres because of all the harm they'll produce.
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I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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