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Climate activists are campaigning against AI data centers and Amazon's plan to build what would be the largest gas-fired power plant in the United States. Protesters argue that the booming energy demands of artificial intelligence are driving new fossil fuel infrastructure, undermining climate goals. The story, reported by Democracy Now!, highlights growing tension between the tech industry's expansion and environmental commitments.

Birgitta Ohlsson is a Swedish politician from the Liberal Party who served as Minister for Gender Equality and later as Minister for EU Affairs and Trade. She has also worked internationally with the National Democratic Institute on democracy and human rights issues. The term is trending in Sweden on X and also appears high in Google searches, but the posts collected do not reveal what specifically sparked the current attention, so the reason for the trend is not clear from the evidence.