Power-Banks Instead of Data-Centres
The Issue
We desperately need to increase renewable energies, in order to reduce fossil fuels.
The problem, is that our ability to adopt renewables has effectively reached its limit.
● iNEWS (Sep 14, 2026): Moray East (one of Britain’s largest offshore wind farms) has been turned off almost 40 per cent of the time because it’s generating more energy than the grid can currently handle.
● EURONEWS (Mar 27, 2026): Last year, Britain wasted a staggering £1.47 billion by turning down wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on […] highlighting the mass scale of green energy being wasted.
Our focus so far has been to increase energy production, but now that we've reached a point where we're actually producing “TOO MUCH”, it’s now time to shift that focus and start increasing storage capacity accordingly, in order to match the same level as production.
[ POWER-BANKS INSTEAD OF DATA-CENTRES ]
The average cost of a data centre is $475M [trailing 12 months avg], and the average cost of utility-scale battery storage is $148/kWh [International Energy Agency], which means that for the price of just one data-centre we can install 3.2 GWh of storage capacity for renewable energies.
So what we have here is the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and stop data-centres while at the same time increasing renewable energies, by reallocating the resources already available from the former to the latter.
According to Erin Brockovich’s Data Centre Map, there are currently 124 operational centres, 152 under construction, 33 permitted, and 145 proposed. So if we had used those resources to install power-banks, this would’ve been equivalent to:
● Operational: 3.2*124 = 396.8 GWh
● Construction: 3.2*152 = 486.4 GWh
● Permitted: 3.2*33 = 105.6 GWh
● Proposed: 3.2*145 = 464.0 GWh
On top of that, the £1.47B ($1.95B USD) wasted by Britain last year, means that with the waste of just ONE year they could've installed 13 GWh of storage capacity instead of pissing it away.
If you believe we should prioritize the construction of Power-Banks over the construction of Data-Centres, please sign and share this petition. Thank you.
SOURCES:
Renewables #1 – Supply Infrastructures
Renewables #2 – Distribution Economics
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The Issue
We desperately need to increase renewable energies, in order to reduce fossil fuels.
The problem, is that our ability to adopt renewables has effectively reached its limit.
● iNEWS (Sep 14, 2026): Moray East (one of Britain’s largest offshore wind farms) has been turned off almost 40 per cent of the time because it’s generating more energy than the grid can currently handle.
● EURONEWS (Mar 27, 2026): Last year, Britain wasted a staggering £1.47 billion by turning down wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on […] highlighting the mass scale of green energy being wasted.
Our focus so far has been to increase energy production, but now that we've reached a point where we're actually producing “TOO MUCH”, it’s now time to shift that focus and start increasing storage capacity accordingly, in order to match the same level as production.
[ POWER-BANKS INSTEAD OF DATA-CENTRES ]
The average cost of a data centre is $475M [trailing 12 months avg], and the average cost of utility-scale battery storage is $148/kWh [International Energy Agency], which means that for the price of just one data-centre we can install 3.2 GWh of storage capacity for renewable energies.
So what we have here is the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, and stop data-centres while at the same time increasing renewable energies, by reallocating the resources already available from the former to the latter.
According to Erin Brockovich’s Data Centre Map, there are currently 124 operational centres, 152 under construction, 33 permitted, and 145 proposed. So if we had used those resources to install power-banks, this would’ve been equivalent to:
● Operational: 3.2*124 = 396.8 GWh
● Construction: 3.2*152 = 486.4 GWh
● Permitted: 3.2*33 = 105.6 GWh
● Proposed: 3.2*145 = 464.0 GWh
On top of that, the £1.47B ($1.95B USD) wasted by Britain last year, means that with the waste of just ONE year they could've installed 13 GWh of storage capacity instead of pissing it away.
If you believe we should prioritize the construction of Power-Banks over the construction of Data-Centres, please sign and share this petition. Thank you.
SOURCES:
Renewables #1 – Supply Infrastructures
Renewables #2 – Distribution Economics
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Petition created on July 22, 2026