I went through old posts and found hints of an increase in data centers, at least in the early 2000s. This company tried to tell a story of why we need them and created a mural project; they also bought a 1960s power plant. In

In 2010, Greenpeace posted a warning and petition re:

The Internet is how we connect, learn new things, and share what we love. But right now, much of our Internet is also dirty, no matter how we use it.

Data centers are where Internet companies store our photos, messages, and music, and many are powered by coal and dirty energy sources that pollute our environment and harm our climate.

What’s worse — the Internet’s demand for energy is only growing bigger. If the Internet were a country, its electricity use would already rank sixth in the world.

I have to say that this is embarrassing to know that the warnings were there, just not given a decent amount of airtime or a good platform to inform the public, now, here we are in 2026, some parts of our country is suffering from droughts, others have had their land squandered by DataCenters, which we all now know use an enormous amount of Energy … and Water!