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Many large-scale data centres are "energy-guzzling infrastructure" with only a minimal impact on job creation. While Tamil Nadu won't stop attracting data centres, it will focus on smaller, AI-specific data centres that better suit the state's highly educated workforce. Certain data centres (referring to a Google project in Andhra...

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This week, we have had a lot of discussions around artificial intelligence, inspired by the Global AI Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. Many African countries are doing great things to motivate young people to take advantage of AI because it represents the future in problem solving. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe’s ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera and her permanent secretary did not attend, showing how these things are not taken seriously by our government. Zimbabwe’s richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, who has not been to Zimbabwe for decades, made it clear at the summit, which he co-chaired, that investment will not go where the environment is not conducive. Our government talks about anything topical without delivering anything meaningful—they are doing the same with AI. The majority of schools have no computers. Zimbabweans receive electricity for only four hours a day. As the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Claver Gatete, explains, a country needs electricity for AI data centres to work. Yet only 600 million out of 1.5 billion people in Africa have access to electricity, not even energy. Yet energy is an integral part of AI development. Energy is an essential component for the successful development and implementation of AI in a country because AI systems require massive amounts of data to function effectively. This data must be stored and processed in data centres and servers, which depend on electricity to power both the hardware and the cooling systems. You cannot achieve this in a country that delivers only four hours of electricity a day to its citizens like Zimbabwe. AI applications require continuous and uninterrupted access to data and computing resources to deliver accurate and timely results. Electricity is also crucial for powering research institutions, universities, and Research and Development centres that drive AI advancement. Without reliable access to electricity, these institutions will struggle to conduct research, develop new algorithms, or train AI models. The tragedy of Zimbabwe is that the Vice-President of Google responsible for AI, Dr James Manyika, is Zimbabwean; one of the key presenters at the summit, Prof Arthur Mutambara, who has just released a book on AI, is Zimbabwean; Strive Masiyiwa, who has partnered with Nvidia to bring supercomputer technology to the continent by building Africa’s first artificial intelligence factory in South Africa with data centres in Kenya and Egypt, is Zimbabwean. Yet, none of them are working in or with Zimbabwe. Our political leaders have let us down on all these fronts, yet they keep yapping about AI when there is nothing on the ground! Instead of slogans and dancing at rallies, they should see how other countries are doing it. A country that doesn’t focus on technology for development will be a dusty village in 25 years, and its people will not be able to compete at all, rendering it just a dot on the global map. Too much political yada yada without anything delivered, and with people like Tatenda Mavetera, who forge qualifications, in the driving seat, Zimbabwe’s fortunes will continue to dwindle! Add to that the historic looting of public funds meant for building power plants to give us electricity, future generations will curse on our graves!

Hopewell Chin’ono

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What I saw at Alberta's anti-AI protest A $13 billion investment from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will see a new data centre built near Edmonton. But not all Albertans are on board with the development, and Rebel News heard from protesters opposed to the project. I went to a protest against an Alberta data centre the other day. It was a Sunday, in a small town, and 200 people showed up. That’s a lot. And unlike most protests I go to, where the protesters have no clue what they’re protesting about, everyone here had a lot to say. Even stranger, they didn’t try to block Rebel News. And the strangest thing was, one of the protesters was a die-hard Rebel News fan. So, are these protesters right? Are data centres something we should fear? The demand for computer processing is so huge these days — think of streaming a Netflix show or making a Zoom call — that the computing power doesn’t come from your laptop or your phone anymore. It comes from buildings stuffed with computers, called data centres. And as artificial intelligence becomes more commonplace, the need for data centres is going to grow. There’s a bit of a race between China and America on AI, and that’s fuelling some of the fevered growth, too. And to me, that’s an important point, and one that I put to a number of the anti-AI protesters: AI isn’t going away. The question is, do you want AI controlled by Communist China, or do you want it controlled by America? Which is more likely to respect privacy and freedom? That was the real fear of the people I spoke with. Their objections to the big $13 billion data centre being built in northern Alberta wasn’t really about its proposed water use (it will use less than a golf course) or it’s power use (it’s actually building its own $4 billion power plant). It’s about AI itself. AI is something to worry about, and to make sure that it’s done right. No doubt it will change many things in our lives. But protesting a computer factory in Alberta isn’t going to change the answers to that — all it might do is push some construction jobs down to Texas, or China itself. Watch the full video I did with Sheila Gunn Reid in Morinville, Alberta. I did my best to let the protesters have their say. I wasn’t surprised that there were climate activists there, but I thought it was weird that the Revolutionary Communist Party was out in such force. I should tell you, I just finished doing a lengthy interview with Nate Glubish, the Alberta cabinet minister in charge of data centres. I actually went up to the construction site of the big new data centre to interview him on location. I’ll have that video for you later this week. What do you think? Is opposition to this data centre just a front for opposing AI itself? And if so, isn’t AI just like the Space Race — it’s a race between us and China, whether or not we like it?

Rebel News

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SERIOUSLY. Are we living in a parallel universe? OpenAI paused its UK data centre project last month. Energy too expensive. Too hostile. Even for them. Starmer found out this morning apparently. Because he spent today at a tech conference selling Britain's AI future. The same week OpenAI quietly walked away from it. He didn't mention that bit. UK electricity prices 125% above the EU average. Four times higher than the United States. Highest in Europe. Data centres consume 5.8% of national electricity and rising. Your energy bills going UP because of it. The Unilever factory employed hundreds of Warrington families for 130 years. Closed 2021. 116 job losses. The data centre replacing it? 20 to 50 permanent jobs. No legal obligation to create even those. THREE permanent AI job vacancies in Warrington in 2025. Three. Specialist roles brought in on fast tracked visas. Not for local kids. Manufacturing creates thousands of jobs. Data centres create dozens. 8 million UK jobs at risk from AI. UK hit harder than any other major economy. Your pension redirected by ministers into the tech companies building those data centres. Without your consent. Funding the machine that's replacing you. And while he stood on that stage. 1,200 children safeguarded from grooming gangs every single month. Child abuse conviction data buried for years. The world's biggest AI company just walked away from Britain because it couldn't afford to run here. And he called that confidence.

BanksyCat

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The UK government has issued a stark directive to its citizens enduring water shortfalls: your personal digital nostalgia is a burden the planet can no longer afford. Amid a drought, their official advice includes taking shorter showers and turning off taps. But the final point reveals a profound and disturbing priority: “Delete old emails and pictures,” it instructs, because “data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.” The narrative is now inescapable. The individual must relentlessly limit their life—conserve, sacrifice, and now, delete their memories—for the climate. Meanwhile, the insatiable engine of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence is granted a limitless pass. It is a sacred cow that must be fed, whatever the cost. Picture the absurd, heart-breaking reality: a grandparent, sitting in the dark to save energy, meticulously deleting cherished photos of their grandchildren to free up a few kilobytes on a server farm they will never see. All to save a thimble of water for the very data centres that consume it by the millions of gallons. There are 477 of these data centres in the UK alone. They are the true vessels of our water and energy, the new temples to which we must all make offerings. The message is clear: your life must be constrained so that their operations can expand infinitely. We are not being asked to save the planet. We are being conditioned to serve the machine.

Camus

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#WATCH | Delhi: At the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Chairman & Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, Mukesh Ambani, says, "Today, on behalf of the Reliance Group and Jio Intelligence, I want to make three announcements. Announcement one, Jio connected India to the internet era. Jio will now connect India to the intelligence era. We will deliver intelligence to every citizen, every sector of the economy, and every facet of social development and every service of government. Jio will do so with the same reliability, quality, scale, and extreme affordability that transformed connectivity. India cannot afford to rent intelligence. Therefore, we will reduce the cost of intelligence as dramatically as we did the cost of data... Announcement 2, Jio, together with Reliance, will invest 10 lakh crores over the next seven years, starting this year... Announcement 3, Jio Intelligence will build India's sovereign compute infrastructure through three bold initiatives. One, gigawatt-scale data centres. We already started construction on multi-gigawatt AI-ready data centres at Jamnagar. Over 120 megawatts will come online in the second half of 2026 this year and a clear path to gigawatt-scale compute for training and large scale inference. Two, our green energy advantage. We have an in-house energy advantage with up to 10 gigawatts of ready green power surplus anchored by solar in both Kutch and Andhra Pradesh. Three, a nationwide edge compute, an edge compute layer deeply integrated with Jio's network will make intelligence responsive, low latency, and affordable close to where Indians live, learn, and work..." (Source: India AI)

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