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Just so its clear: data centres are not "critical infrastructure".
They are Mystery Factories that can perform computation for any digital output: from crypto scams, to hospital databases, to on-demand child abuse material, reams of unstoppable generated slop content, telemetry for helicopters.....shoving that all under one single, broad and politically-charged label opens the door to wasteful, harmful and environmentally harmful behaviour.
This whole report is great but the one thing that REALLY stands out is the fact that the EU could've fully shut down reliance on Russian fossil fuels had they aligned with their climate targets
Add that to the grim picture of EU households wildly overpaying for energy to further enrich those of us in Norway.....
It was clear three years ago that Europe switching from Russian gas to American gas was simply handing its carbon leash to another master. This is a good new analysis that reiterates the need to eliminate gas reliance altogether - if not for climate, then for safety from despotic regimes