AI data centers are fueling an incomprehensible environmental crisis, as tech companies build a grid of fossil-fuel plants to meet power demands.
Texas has emerged as the epicenter of this trend, where developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes to secure environmental permits typically reserved for small businesses like dry cleaners. In doing so, these facilities are deploying thousands of toxic backup generators, quietly churning out massive amounts of greenhouse gases and air pollution.
The scale of this unchecked growth is staggering. Cornell University researchers estimate that by 2030, the burgeoning AI industry could generate up to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, the equivalent of putting 10 million additional cars on U.S. highways.
Beyond carbon, the immediate public health impacts are alarming; local data centers are projected to emit thousands of tons of highly toxic nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants that cause respiratory illnesses.
As communities grapple with the environmental and health fallout, tech giants are facing growing pressure to reconcile their public sustainability goals with the massive, physical footprint of their digital empires. source: Tangermann, V. (2026). The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible. Futurism.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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