Sunday, October 18, 2026

Councils shut Southland locals out of $5 billion data centre review

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Environment Southland has rejected a local group’s request to review the water consent for the $5 billion Datagrid AI data centre at Makarewa.

The consent lets Datagrid draw up to 600,000 litres of groundwater each day. The public never got a chance to object, because the council judged the environmental effects “minor”.

The council said Datagrid’s allowance would be less than 10% of the regional water limit, so the legal threshold for review had not been met.

Southland District Council, which approved the building, has also refused to reopen its consent after the group raised concerns about the noise from the plant’s cooling systems and generators.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. OK..this confirms the Zionist Global Noahide Law DICKtatorship that the Uni-Party Government is now imposing on Southland residents, land owners and farmers!
    It’s time to take this to the ICC for Human Rights violations, as well as Civil Rights being encroached upon.
    The Council memberships allowing for this are evidently being well paid by the perpetrators, or they have been blackmailed, threatened and bribed…
    Folks, it’s time you all in Southland and elsewhere in NZ vote for the NZ Loyal Party, and get your land, property, water & sewerage rights reinstated!
    & hopefully, the land titles and deeds will be able to be changed over to Alloidial Titles, and the Crown Titles abolished!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMile-6hcg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwhyqEyXjzk
    https://www.tiktok.com/@pillatalkstaxes/video/7520332555183230263

  2. This happening all over the world as A.I. proliferates and They fire up their systems. The people certainly wont get a say in it, it’s way bigger then The People. Unfortunately all this has been predicted for millennia, it’s happening in front of our eyes and you have to be stupid, ignorant and/or blind to not notice that shit is f*#ked up and weird stuff is going on. Interesting times.

    • Its real purpose, I believe, is primarily to enable data harvesting on a massive scale, ushering in the real surveillance state. Its not feasible using people, as they do in China. It has over 1+ million public servants watching the Chinese populace. So this is a working substitute.

  3. Money opens doors for those who have it and closes it, for those who don’t. Shameful but then this is what NZ has come to. “Zero accountability” to the people who pay for these so called public services. Best thing locals can do is note down names and vote them out. Not that it changes the outcome in a meaningful way.

  4. Rabbit and Globalistssuck are dead on, some totally weird (evil) stuff going on and we have no say
    It will go ahead regardless. Complete surveillance, won’t be able to buy or sell without the you know what.
    I read recently where Israel and US feed all the gathered data from camera surveillance, satellite, phone, people movement data etc into Ai processed by companies like Palantir and other tech companies to provide target lists for airforce etc in Palestine and Iran with a possible 10% or more wrong target outcome. Maybe that’s why they bombed that school in Iran.
    Thats what they will do to us, total control if you are part of the system, close your bank account turn off your power and car, no digital ID no food, no fuel all run by Ai. Truly dark times ahead, all predicted.

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