Tag Archives: land use

Data Centres Energy and Water Consumption: Do we ask too much of our planet?

Posted on May 29, 2025 by borderslynn

There is a website which provides information for 9752 data centres across the world. https://www.datacentermap.com/datacenters/ Why are data centres and data transmission networks important? Demand for digital services is growing rapidly. Since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazon, back up power, business, clean water usage, cloud computing, data Centres, data services, digitising, emissions, energy consumption, Essex, farmland, fuel sources, generator backup, glacier collapse, hyperscalers, Internet infrastructure, land use, location. security, low rainfall, Microsoft, national grid, permafrost melt, warming planet | 1 Comment

Farmers: Think Flood Plans

Posted on November 29, 2024 by borderslynn

As farmers have to accept climate change is impacting them on many levels, they have worked to organise their farms to be more resilient. Here is an example of a flood plan in Wales, a country, more often than not, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged carbon emissions, economy, Farming, flood plans, floods, food production, horticulture, land management, land use, livestock, methane, plants, weather events | Leave a comment

Concept of borders

Posted on November 10, 2022 by borderslynn

Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Concept of borders, conflict, Farming, food production, human behaviour, land use, migration, nomadic life, self identity, sustainability, territory | Leave a comment

The Impact of Farming on land use: Britain

Posted on February 14, 2021 by borderslynn

In the Neolithic Era, (name for New Stone Age which occurred around 4000 – 2000 BC) ancestral farmers of Britons, established farming here which has transformed land usage. When those farmers from southern Europe arrived here 6000 years ago, they … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Aegean farmers, Angles, animal domestication, Bell Beaker, Britain, British ancestors, celts, Domesday Book, Europe, Iberians, Jutes, land use, Monarchs, neolithic era, Normans, Pope, power, Romans, Saxons, taxes, Vikings | 2 Comments