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Manufacturers plan a PFAS “tidal wave” for data-centre demand
Sep 14, 2026SOURCE: theguardian.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, treating ecological cost as externalities amplifies future constraints on intelligence-intensive infrastructure and raises the probability of sudden policy reversals.
Campaigners warn producers are ramping “forever chemicals” output to satisfy datacentre needs tied to AI growth. The signal is an old system converting new compute demand into long-tail environmental risk.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.