Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI

Creating A Shared Vision For the Restoration Of The Ericht Catchment - Catchment Restoration Initiative

Our project’s ‘Pioneer’ status means that we are being offered some fantastic opportunities to pilot new ways of working to restore nature at landscape scale. One of those is the opportunity to work with ETH Zurich on trialing a new tool for our next project milestone which is the development of the restoration vision – […]

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Drones, GIS and Cameras Are Transforming Disaster Assessment

In the Carolinas, ICF drones have conducted rapid damage assessments in a 100-mile zone following Hurricane Helene as part of a geospatial initiative to speed up federal recovery funding requests.

Flooded Zones Part 1

Tom Cowap CC-BY-SA 4.0 Three years ago in Flooding The Zone With Shit , my first post on the AI bubble, I wrote: My immediate reaction to...

NERV Disaster Prevention App

The NERV Disaster Prevention app delivers real-time alerts for earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, severe weather risks like landslides and floods, and more.

Bluerain

Bluesky firehose visualized in a Matrix-style rain

The Dark Factory Floods: What Happens When Agents Write Code No One Reads | Nash Borges

What breaks when agents write and merge code faster than humans can review or understand it, and what kind of operating model keeps the flood under control.

No more tokens! Locking down npm Publish Workflows—zachleat.com

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

AI & the Environment

I write a lot about AI’s effects on the environment.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.