Thurrock Council – say no to Google’s plan for a monster new Data Centre

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Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Thurrock, Essex – emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting over an important habitat for bees, butterflies, rare plants and birds.

Please help persuade Thurrock Council to refuse Google’s “Arena Essex” planning application. The more objections Thurrock Council receives, the better.

We’ve included suggestions of what to say, it will only take a couple of minutes, and it will make a massive difference to the campaign.

Update: we’ve been made aware by supporters that Thurrock Council is asking anyone who writes in to provide their address for publication. We can completely understand you may not want to share your address or have it displayed online, so please only send your objection to the council if you are comfortable doing that.

News

New UK data centres could have a devastating impact on our environment, and our national water and power resources

The government has quietly put building tonnes more of these power and water guzzlers at the heart of their economic plans. 

NEW CASE LAUNCH: Foxglove launches UK’s first legal challenge against the construction of a hyperscale data centre and to defend our power, water and environment 

Hyperscale data centres guzzle drinking water and electrical power and emit polluting emissions, but Rayner said no environmental tests were needed.

The UK government’s environment watchdog has endorsed a dodgy and misleading report from Big Tech PR men, saying data centres don’t use much water – that’s a big problem. Here’s why

Get ready to see this report being used a lot to argue concerns about data centres guzzling water are overblown. Here's why that's BS.

We’ve hit our UK data centre challenge Crowdjustice target! PLUS – new report: 10 new data centres would wipe out ALL annual carbon savings from electric cars

We're still crowdfunding for our stretch goal to contribute to staff time on the case, so if you'd like to donate, it's not too late!