# Bikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center

- Source: Wired · AI
- Published: 2026-11-09T08:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/m0o1yfnkgf500sr574v1tppys
- Original: https://www.wired.com/story/bug-activists-and-biker-gang-members-are-teaming-up-to-protest-data-centers/

## Summary

Buglife and allied groups delivered a petition signed by almost 55,000 people, asking Google to abandon its planned data center in Thurrock, 15 miles east of London. The coalition cites harm to an endangered plant, a rare bumblebee and other invertebrates, plus up to 570,000 tonnes of annual emissions. Google says it will achieve a net gain in biodiversity and aims to become carbon-neutral by 2030.