Read the full article by Lauren Hines-Acosta (Bay Journal)
“Data centers, which enable the world’s internet use, hold more than people’s vacation photos or sensitive data. They contain rows and rows of computer servers that use ‘forever chemicals.’
PFAS, or per– and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that have been used since the 1940s largely to make products resistant to water and heat. The sturdy fluorine carbon bond makes the chemicals last virtually ‘forever’ in the environment, since natural processes can’t break them down.
Studies have linked long-term exposure to even low levels of some PFAS with serious health problems, including cancer and damage to reproductive and immune systems.