Chlöe cries crocodile tears

NEWS: 'Greens push for pause to big data centres consents, citing rising power prices.'

"Net Zero and the deployment of wind and solar generation put far more upward pressure on power prices than AI data centres do. The NZ public have never had a say on whether NZ should pursue Net Zero or not. How about we have a referendum on this?"

~ Zaphodd BB

"You'd think the Greens would want more data centres in NZ serving the world, given our electricity is 95% renewable and therefore better for the planet. Guess popularist derr brainery is more important than lowering carbon emissions eh..."

~ Lewis Holden

"The instinct is 'capitalists are doing something we don’t understand and didn’t think of, so it should stop until we think we understand it and can tie it up in rules so it looks like something we can tolerate grudgingly'.”

~ Liberty Scott

"Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says massive power-hungry AI data centres risk driving up electricity prices for the impoverished. Yet, as she knows, her push for Net Zero makes rising electricity prices a 100% certainty. She cries crocodile tears."

~ Peter Cresswell