A global movement · firewalkers.earth

The AI revolution
is consuming the earth.

Data centres are being built on ancient land, draining water tables, destroying the places we love — before communities even know it's happening. We exist to change that.

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Scott Seivwright · Founder · Bathgate Hills, Scotland

Filmed June 2026 · No script · Just the land and the truth

What is The Firewalkers?

We use AI to protect
the natural world from AI.

The technology is not the enemy. How it is being built — at speed, without consent, on land that cannot speak for itself in planning applications — that is the problem.

The Firewalkers is a global movement that watches what's coming, equips communities with tools to understand and fight back, and connects the people who care — technologists, activists, ecologists, people of faith, anyone who loves a place.

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Watch

Monitoring data centre planning applications globally before communities run out of time to respond.

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Equip

AI tools that translate complex planning documents into plain language communities can actually use.

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Connect

Building the network of people who won't watch the earth be consumed without a fight.

Where do you start?

This movement is for you.
Whoever you are.

Find your path in.

For residents

"There's a data centre planned near me. What do I do?"

You have less time than you think — but you have more power than you know. Start with the Watch, understand what's being proposed, and use the tools to fight back.

Data Centre Watch Objection Builder Active Campaigns

For technologists

"I work in tech. I can see this is wrong. I want to help."

You understand what's being built better than most. We need your skills — code, data, AI expertise, infrastructure knowledge. Come build tools that communities can actually use.

Help Build This Good AI Principles Join the Community

For activists & ecologists

"I've been fighting for the land for years. This is the next battle."

You already know how to organise, campaign, and sustain a movement. What you may need is data, tools, and connection to others fighting the same fight in different places.

Research & Evidence Campaign Network Digital Wardens

The scale of what is happening

This is the fastest land grab
in human history.

12 wks

The consultation window

The average time communities have to object to a data centre planning application. Most don't know the clock is running until it has nearly stopped.

2,000+

Planned globally

New data centres in the pipeline worldwide. Sacred landscapes, green belt land, ancient hillsides — all in the crosshairs of infrastructure that moves faster than regulation.

Bn ltrs

Water consumed daily

The amount of water consumed by AI cooling systems every day — in drought-prone areas, on top of already-stressed water tables, in communities that were never asked.

Live

The Lammermuirs

A data centre proposed for the Lammermuir Hills — a Special Landscape Area in Scotland. One of dozens of active campaigns. The fight is already here.

The platform

Tools communities can actually use.

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Data Centre Watch

Real-time intelligence on planning applications, AI Growth Zone proposals, and threats to protected landscapes around the world.

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Planning Decoder

Paste in a planning document. Get back plain-language summaries, key dates, grounds for objection, and suggested next steps.

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Objection Builder

AI-assisted tools for drafting formal objections, community letters, and consultation responses that land with weight.

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Campaign Network

Connect with other communities fighting the same battles. Share what worked. Learn from what didn't. Build collective power.

Live Campaign

Save the Lammermuirs

Ancient land. A data centre. Twelve weeks to fight back.

The Lammermuir Hills are a Special Landscape Area in Scotland — ancient, protected, and currently the subject of a data centre planning application that most of the local community didn't know about until it was nearly too late.

This is one of dozens of live campaigns. It is the one on our doorstep. And it is the template for what is happening everywhere.

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The founder

Thirty years building the machine. Now protecting the land it's consuming.

I am Scott Seivwright. I've spent three decades in AI and digital transformation — building the systems, leading the programmes, working globally with some of the world's largest organisations.

I am also a practising druid. An Ovate of OBOD. A member of the Elder and Gorse Druids at Roslin. Someone whose spiritual practice is rooted in this land — and who cannot in good conscience stay silent about what is being done to it in the name of technological progress.

Those two things are not as far apart as you might think. They are, in fact, exactly why The Firewalkers exists.

30 years AI & digital transformation Oxford AI Programme OBOD Ovate Elder & Gorse Druids, Roslin Green Software Foundation Co-founder, GreenPO.org

Watch Scott on the Bathgate Hills →

From the Hearth

Latest dispatches.

Video · June 10, 2026

The Land Is Being Taken. Meet The Firewalkers.

Standing on the Bathgate Hills. Thirty years in AI. A druid. Ancient ground. No script.

Watch & read →

Open Invitation · June 4, 2026

The Land Is Being Taken. Come Help Us Fight Back.

An urgent call to AI builders, movement organisers, people of faith, anyone who loves a place.