If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-queensland-lnp-plan-for-coal-powered-data-centres-could-cost-taxpayers-20-billion-a-pop/

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Fossil fuel subsidies lead to increased emissions, but cancelling them can harm poor people. Shifting funds from fossil fuel producers to low-income consumers via existing social assistance programs can reduce poverty and lower emissions. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vCQZ50ZSNpQ

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“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

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3(!) climate researchers won @macfound.org genius awards today: @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, Kaiyu Guan, Marika Holland! Well deserved. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

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“Super-intelligence” implies superiority over human intelligence. “Artificial intelligence” implies non-human, and therefore non-authentic. The language isn’t an accident … it’s part of a dangerous political project.

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