At DRAX we burn trees, but we wanna burn more -to power AI data centres!
Invest your taxes (£2m/day!) in our state-of-the-art deforestation technology.
Help us cut trees, eliminate wildlife, displace communities and create AI Slop!
For your “renewable” energy, choose DRAX.
Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire was once the UK’s largest coal-fired power plant. Starting in 2003, it was gradually converted to run on biomass, and it now burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets every year.
This was sold as a green alternative to fossil fuels, and Drax has already pocketed billions in government subsidies on that basis.
But in reality, Drax’s green credentials are based on dodgy accounting – burning biomass for power in this way creates as much carbon pollution as coal or gas.
Drax is actually the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and world’s biggest tree burner (woody biomass burning power station). Drax’s actions have been repeatedly linked to driving environmental racism and causing huge amounts of harm to communities, forests and biodiversity.
To make matters worse, there is a proposed Drax-powered AI Data Centre in the works. If it goes ahead, it will result in 2.5 million tonnes of trees being burnt up to 2030, and then 5 million tonnes going forward. This data centre would burn a tree every time it’s used.
Approving Drax’s dirty data centre proposal will result in more pollution of low-income, Black communities, more forests lost and is the furthest thing from the green future and jobs that we need.
We need to make it clear that allowing an AI data centre powered by Drax’s tree burning is the last thing we need. Take action today: Ditch Drax’s Dirty Data Centre!
These posters went up in Hastings, UK. Keep your eyes peeled, it will be popping up in other cities in the coming weeks! #AXEDRAX #DitchDraxsDirtyDataCentre
