Tag Archives: datacenters

Human activity heating the planet

Posted on October 29, 2025 by borderslynn

As a frightening storm Melissa pounds Jamaica and moves agonisingly slowly toward poverty stricken Cuba, we know we are all responsible for the cause of these increasingly more common nightmare scenarios: Why Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest Atlantic … Continue reading →

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Who owns us?

Posted on September 22, 2025 by borderslynn

Larry Ellson, 3 years older than me, seems to own my private data. Guess no-one bothered to ask me if I approved of that, but then, maybe to them, I am just a number: Cash-strapped NHS trusts hand former PM … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged CNN, conflict, cyber attck frequency, datacenters, digitizing personal information, israel, Labour, Larry Ellison, media buyouts, Oracle, Palantir, Palestine, politics, private medical information, silencing critics of Israel, TBF, TikTok, UK, US | Leave a comment

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

Posted on August 29, 2025 by borderslynn

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic melt, Boreal Forest, burn scars, climate change evidence, datacenters, drought, emissions, energy production, fooding, fossil fuels, glacier melt, human activity induced apocalyptic fires, human suffering, indigenous peoples, infrastructure destruction, loss of home, methane, migration, natural cycke of fires, permafrost melt, petroleum industry, pristine land, recognition of harm, responsibility, sea level rises, shrinking resources, sinking land, sovereignty, submerged land, survival, survival of humanity, threat, wildfires | Leave a comment

Datacenters, bitcoin mining energy use: hits availability of electricity and raises costs steeply

Posted on August 22, 2025 by borderslynn

Paul Krugman writes today on Substack: Placing tech companies in Pentagon: On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders. Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bitcoin mining, datacenters, electricity, energy costs, evidence of steep cost rises, fossil fuels, renewables, updating tech in military | Leave a comment

Draining our energy and fresh water capacity

Posted on August 7, 2025 by borderslynn

Following from a previous blog: https://borderslynn.com/2025/05/29/data-centres-energy-and-water-consumption-do-we-ask-too-much-of-our-planet/ South Memphis (99.5 percent Black) experience of asthma increased due to smog generated by the Musk built, unregulated datacenter: Here is a glimpse of current exponential construction of datacentres: 500 data centres in UK, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged AI, competition, data expansion, data needs, datacenters, ecological damage, fresh water shortage, global energy consumption, technology short term investment | Leave a comment