Giordano Nanni (11 August 2026). 'Honest Government Ad: AI Data Centres', The Juice Media
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kON2ZI2BNj8
Blurb: "The Juice Media https://bsky.app/profile/thejuicemedia.com – 98.9% 'genuine satire': covering Government shitfuckery and the most pressing issues of our time – written & created by Giordano in a backyard home-studio in suburban Melbourne, Australia – on Wurundjeri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurundjeri lands. (We Pay the Rent)" (Nanni, G., & The Juice Media., 2025). https://bsky.app/profile/thejuicemedia.com/post/3mssdzovbqc2y Related: We Pay the Rent: "Paying the Rent is a step towards acknowledging these facts. It is part of a process that all non-Indigenous people – individually and collectively – need to enter into if we are to move towards justice, truth, equality and liberation for First Nations people." https://paytherent.net.au/whypay/ Comment: The clip makes reference to the so-called 'broligarchy' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broligarchy phenomenon, which the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cadwalladr discusses in relation to Donald Trump's second cabinet appointees (Cadwalladr, C., 2024, November 17). Issue: "A growing number of governments, regulators and cities around the world are moving to freeze, restrict or ban new data centre construction, as concerns mount over electricity costs, strained water supplies, land scarcity and the burden on local communities from the infrastructure powering the AI boom" (Reuters Staff., 2026, July 14) - something, which is surely worth considering given the UK's latest series of heatwaves i.e. https://newpractices.co.uk/ClimateChange/#o8L5ZXBBdjs Issue: "'We're also seeing vested-interest lobby groups like the newly formed Data Centres Australia aggressively pushing to cut regulations that would protect Australians from the climate, environmental and social impacts of data centres. 'Last year, the Albanese government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanese_government abandoned its own recommended AI guardrails when it announced its National AI Plan https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/national-ai-plan — a move applauded by these lobby groups. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ketanjoshi1_why-is-the-head-of-autsralias-data-centre-activity-7462397128217276416-2iYp 'The gas lobby has also now seized on data centre growth to justify extracting more gas, just as the world needs to rapidly phase out fossil fuels for energy security and to tackle the climate crisis. 'We have a short and closing window to choose a different path in Australia — without strong guardrails, we risk replicating the US pattern where Big Tech corporations make huge profits at the expense of locals. The government must not roll out the red carpet to these corporations without adequate, legislated protections and scrutiny — not just 'nice-to-haves'.'" (O'Callaghan, K., 2026). Context: 'Data Centres Australia' i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxlJPDWQkVg are seemingly a 'lobbying group' (or, 'peak body' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_organisation in Australian parlance). Criticism: "Here's the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it's been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life. That's not a landscape where a couple improved talking points turn around an issue. As that Axios article explained, 'Data centers are as popular as spent nuclear waste, and more broadly have become a proxy for feelings about AI'" (Graff, G., 2026, August 20). Further: the 2019 film entitled http://trigg.gr/tag/2019_TheGreatHack https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4736550/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Hack provides some background to the manipulation of data by organisations such as http://trigg.gr/tag/BrandCambridgeAnalytica to win public favour. Bibliography: Nanni, G., & The Juice Media. (2025). 'About - the juice media'. In The Juice Media. https://www.thejuicemedia.com/about/ Cadwalladr, C. (2024, November 17). 'How to survive the broligarchy: 20 Lessons for the post-truth world'. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump Reuters Staff. (2026, July 14). 'Where authorities are restricting data centres amid AI boom'. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/where-authorities-are-restricting-data-centres-amid-ai-boom-2026-07-14/ O'Callaghan, K. (2026). 'Australia must not follow dystopian US-style data centre path of Big Tech overreach and emissions blow out'. In Greenpeace Australia Pacific. https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/australia-must-not-follow-dystopian-us-style-data-centre-path-of-big-tech-overreach-and-emissions-blow-out/ Graff, G. (2026, August 20). 'AI is making everything worse'. Doomsday Scenario. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse Coleman, J. (2023, December 7). "Ai's climate impact goes beyond its emissions". Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ais-climate-impact-goes-beyond-its-emissions/
