Should we be worried about the environmental impacts of AI data centres? | BBC Politics Live
June 10, 2026
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as posted by the channel"Water demand of AI data centres could be equivalent to the basic needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030," Global Witness’s head of investigations Patrick Galey has told the BBC's Politics Live.
Former Brexit Party MEP Lucy Harris, argued AI is good for growth and that “when it comes to the cost of living crisis, the priority of ordinary people is not the climate.”
Presenter Vicki Young was also joined in the studio by Labour MP Lola McEvoy and Green MP Siân Berry.
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