John Reynolds
@johnreynlds.bsky.social
Freelance business journalist, Sunday & Irish Independent / The Currency.
Also cover climate and energy. Other writing, editing & comms work too.
Also cover climate and energy. Other writing, editing & comms work too.
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100% this. We think one of the most effective tools against sickness is ensuring our air is free of pollutants, including pathogens. The government seem to think punitive measures on sick people are the answer. Of course they're not. Tackle the root causes.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
100% this. We think one of the most effective tools against sickness is ensuring our air is free of pollutants, including pathogens. The government seem to think punitive measures on sick people are the answer. Of course they're not. Tackle the root causes.
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#CleanAirIsAHumanRight should include not only #airpollution (eg PM2.5) but also other airborne threats to human health & safety - incl viruses. I totally support Ella's Law AND would like to see Green's linking up promotion of #CleanAir to our Covid & Long Covid policy. Eg air filtration in Schools
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#CleanAirIsAHumanRight should include not only #airpollution (eg PM2.5) but also other airborne threats to human health & safety - incl viruses. I totally support Ella's Law AND would like to see Green's linking up promotion of #CleanAir to our Covid & Long Covid policy. Eg air filtration in Schools
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The ocean has been helping us by withdrawing CO₂ from the atmosphere at an ever increasing rate.
The AMOC plays a crucial role in transporting the carbon to the deep ocean.
Weakening of the AMOC could reduce the ocean CO₂ sink by as much as 100 billion tons this century.
The AMOC plays a crucial role in transporting the carbon to the deep ocean.
Weakening of the AMOC could reduce the ocean CO₂ sink by as much as 100 billion tons this century.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Here in Belém at the conference hall it smells like smoke and burning plastic.
Very on the nose that there's a fire at the climate conference in the Amazon.
Very on the nose that there's a fire at the climate conference in the Amazon.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Here in Belém at the conference hall it smells like smoke and burning plastic.
Very on the nose that there's a fire at the climate conference in the Amazon.
Very on the nose that there's a fire at the climate conference in the Amazon.
Ireland's electricity capacity market - which has financed hundreds of millions of euros for gas power for data centres (sometimes the turbines are owned by the data centre operator) - has on occasion paid 10 times the capacity market rate in France
www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
www.acer.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Ireland's electricity capacity market - which has financed hundreds of millions of euros for gas power for data centres (sometimes the turbines are owned by the data centre operator) - has on occasion paid 10 times the capacity market rate in France
www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
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As we all crawl through the Cloudflare slowdown, it is a powerful reminder that the international economy is not flat but built around key chokepoints. And those chokepoints are sites of vulnerability as well as opportunity.
www.amazon.com/Underground-...
www.amazon.com/Underground-...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
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November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
As we all crawl through the Cloudflare slowdown, it is a powerful reminder that the international economy is not flat but built around key chokepoints. And those chokepoints are sites of vulnerability as well as opportunity.
www.amazon.com/Underground-...
www.amazon.com/Underground-...
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Microsoft has been leading a big tech push to use generative AI to enshittify the nuclear power plant licensing process
Absolutely on brand
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ainowinstitute.org/publications...
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social
Absolutely on brand
www.404media.co/power-compan...
ainowinstitute.org/publications...
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Microsoft has been leading a big tech push to use generative AI to enshittify the nuclear power plant licensing process
Absolutely on brand
www.404media.co/power-compan...
ainowinstitute.org/publications...
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social
Absolutely on brand
www.404media.co/power-compan...
ainowinstitute.org/publications...
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @sofiaguerra.bsky.social
"The demand from these [data] centres is outpacing the development of new renewable energy sources and pushing up electricity costs."
ccpi.org/country/irl/
ccpi.org/country/irl/
Ireland – Climate Performance Ranking 2026 | Climate Change Performance Index
Ireland, at 33rd, is in the middle of the pack for climate performance in the CCPI ranking. While a strong funder of climate finance, the country is falling short on GHG emissions and grappling with t...
ccpi.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The demand from these [data] centres is outpacing the development of new renewable energy sources and pushing up electricity costs."
ccpi.org/country/irl/
ccpi.org/country/irl/
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.
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It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition.
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
Finance for climate adaptation projects is below what is required to address the escalating risks posed by climate change, according to a new report.
Climate projects too small to secure funding, says report
Finance for climate adaptation projects is below what is required to address the escalating risks posed by climate change, according to a new report.
www.rte.ie
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition.
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
#SpéirGorm #ClimateChange
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"So given all the notes he struck during the campaign, it is revealing to consider those Mamdani left unplayed. One in particular stands out: Throughout the long mayoral campaign, Mamdani rarely spoke about climate change..."
heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
Zohran Mamdani’s Muted Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"So given all the notes he struck during the campaign, it is revealing to consider those Mamdani left unplayed. One in particular stands out: Throughout the long mayoral campaign, Mamdani rarely spoke about climate change..."
heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
heatmap.news/politics/zoh...
A must-listen interview with one of the writers, Declan Lawn, if you’re a #BlueLights fan
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A must-listen interview with one of the writers, Declan Lawn, if you’re a #BlueLights fan
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Sinéad O'Sullivan: John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology
Sinéad O'Sullivan: John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology
We have money, talent and trust, but to cross threshold into action demands something rarer: courage
www.irishtimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Sinéad O'Sullivan: John Collison is only half right. Ireland’s problem isn’t just process, it’s psychology
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"In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
www.source-material.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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"One voter had glued a photo of their dog Honey to the bottom of the ballot, marked No 1." www.thejournal.ie/spoiled-vote...
Spoiled votes emerge from boxes in large numbers, with many referencing alternative candidates
A campaign to spoil votes had gathered traction online, but it was unclear as to how that would translate on polling day.
www.thejournal.ie
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"One voter had glued a photo of their dog Honey to the bottom of the ballot, marked No 1." www.thejournal.ie/spoiled-vote...
Larry Ellison name-checked Wild Bioscience at the recent Oracle AI world conference, telling the audience that it could help provide "food security around the world”.
For the Irish @independent.ie I spoke to the Dubliner leading the plant biology division at Larry Ellison's Technology Institute in Oxford - he's just raised a $60m series A for his agtech startup Wild Bioscience
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
Irish-led seed start-up raised $60m from Larry Ellison fund
An agri-tech start-up co-founded by a scientist from Dublin has raised $60m (€51.4m) of so-called series A funding, in an investment round led by Oracle chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison’s eponymo...
www.independent.ie
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Larry Ellison name-checked Wild Bioscience at the recent Oracle AI world conference, telling the audience that it could help provide "food security around the world”.
For the Irish @independent.ie I spoke to the Dubliner leading the plant biology division at Larry Ellison's Technology Institute in Oxford - he's just raised a $60m series A for his agtech startup Wild Bioscience
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
Irish-led seed start-up raised $60m from Larry Ellison fund
An agri-tech start-up co-founded by a scientist from Dublin has raised $60m (€51.4m) of so-called series A funding, in an investment round led by Oracle chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison’s eponymo...
www.independent.ie
October 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For the Irish @independent.ie I spoke to the Dubliner leading the plant biology division at Larry Ellison's Technology Institute in Oxford - he's just raised a $60m series A for his agtech startup Wild Bioscience
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
www.independent.ie/business/tec...
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“This is the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957 and is well in excess of the 2022–2023 increase of 2.3 ppm.”
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening
www.newscientist.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“This is the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957 and is well in excess of the 2022–2023 increase of 2.3 ppm.”
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
Global carbon sinks buckling as pollution overwhelms Earth’s capacity to absorb our impacts. ☠️
www.newscientist.com/article/2500...
Two G700s no less
Maybe the second one is a spare to follow the first one in case it breaks down, like that infamous CEO - of GE I think - once had
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Maybe the second one is a spare to follow the first one in case it breaks down, like that infamous CEO - of GE I think - once had
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Two G700s no less
Maybe the second one is a spare to follow the first one in case it breaks down, like that infamous CEO - of GE I think - once had
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Maybe the second one is a spare to follow the first one in case it breaks down, like that infamous CEO - of GE I think - once had
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
The soil health = human health connection
Relevant to U2's The Edge and his co-founding of soil health startup Oath
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/why...
Relevant to U2's The Edge and his co-founding of soil health startup Oath
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/why...
How healthy soil is foundational to good health
The way we farm has enormous impact – both good & bad – on the living world beneath our feet &
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The soil health = human health connection
Relevant to U2's The Edge and his co-founding of soil health startup Oath
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/why...
Relevant to U2's The Edge and his co-founding of soil health startup Oath
wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/why...
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Speaking of AI data centers, have you flown into Dulles International Airport near D.C. recently?
Welp, you landed smack in the middle of Data Center Alley, the world's *densest data center hub.*
Its making power bills skyrocket in Baltimore.
You can see the U-shaped runways in the center. 🫣
Welp, you landed smack in the middle of Data Center Alley, the world's *densest data center hub.*
Its making power bills skyrocket in Baltimore.
You can see the U-shaped runways in the center. 🫣
October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Speaking of AI data centers, have you flown into Dulles International Airport near D.C. recently?
Welp, you landed smack in the middle of Data Center Alley, the world's *densest data center hub.*
Its making power bills skyrocket in Baltimore.
You can see the U-shaped runways in the center. 🫣
Welp, you landed smack in the middle of Data Center Alley, the world's *densest data center hub.*
Its making power bills skyrocket in Baltimore.
You can see the U-shaped runways in the center. 🫣
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Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.
Read this in @bloomberg.com👇
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...