Dispatches from the field. Scott Seivwright on land, AI, data centres, and the fight to protect the natural world. Evidence-based. Specific. No filler.
10 posts · Updated June 2026
Intelligence
The industry is building at 3–5 times the scale that independent models say we actually need. The evidence for speculative overcapacity is clear — and the land being consumed in the process is real. With full source citations and downloadable research paper.
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AI Growth Zones and "national infrastructure" status speed approval — and, by design, narrow the local voice. A study of the trade-off between speed and consent, and the safeguards that would close the gap. PR-004, with downloadable paper.
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The cost of the grid and water build the boom requires lands on household bills — and falls hardest on the families least able to carry it. The poorest already spend twice the national share on water. PR-003, with downloadable paper.
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A systematic look at data centre water use across the UK, Ireland and EU — and the planning systems approving facilities with no requirement to disclose how much water they draw. PR-002, with downloadable paper.
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Standing on the Bathgate Hills with thirty years in AI and a druid's relationship to the land. No script. The case for why this movement exists.
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An urgent call to AI builders, movement organisers, people of faith, students, and anyone who loves a place. The platform needs you now.
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A live campaign to stop an industrial data centre on the Lammermuir Hills. Ancient moorland. Sacred landscape. Wrong place.
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Thirty years in AI. A druid's practice. The moment those two things could no longer be held in separate pockets. The origin of this movement.
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The industry is building at 3–5 times the scale that independent models say we actually need. Speculative overcapacity — and the land being consumed for it.
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The documented environmental costs of data centre infrastructure — water, land, energy, biodiversity, planning — and the choices that could change the outcome.
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We need AI. We also need the earth. A clear-eyed look at green AI alternatives — what responsible infrastructure actually looks like in practice.
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You don't have to be a druid. You don't have to be an activist. You don't have to work in technology. But you might be a Firewalker.
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The Firewalkers use AI every day. The question was never whether to use the technology — it was whether we use it wisely or hand it to those who only measure its value in watts.
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Why the AI debate sent me back to the ancient paths. The druid path does not begin when you decide to walk it — it begins when you realise you already have been.
Read more →From the Hearth is the editorial voice of The Firewalkers — written by Scott Seivwright, founder. The register is factual and evidence-based. Every post names places, dates, and planning references where they exist. No superlatives. No vague gestures toward "the future." Just the specific case, clearly made.
Posts cover four areas: active campaigns and the intelligence behind them; analysis of the data centre industry and its environmental record; movement building and the tools communities need; and the founder's perspective as a technologist, druid, and land steward.
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