Google's Energy Strategy | Belgium's 'Reading Between the Lines' Church | Beautful Botswana by David Burton

Google’s Finland Data Center

Google’s New Data Center in Finland Enhances Efficient Energy Plan AOC Green Beings

If you believe in goddesses, then perhaps Mother Nature was operating in Findland’s favor, with its cold climate. As for low electricity prices, she was not involved to the best of our knowledge.

Google’s new data center is located in an old paper ill on the Baltic coast of Finland. The move to digital and the strong environmental ethic in Scandinavia had a major effect on demand in the paper industry. When paper manufacturer Stora Enso Oyj closed down the mill in 2008, Google seized the opportunity to retrofit the strucuture as a new data center.

Belgium’s Public Sculptures

Belgium’s Z-OUT See-Through Church by Gijs Van Varenbergh AOC Green Beings

The church project is called ‘Reading between the Lines’ and changes perspective inside and out, depending on the location of the viewer in juxtaposition to the structure.

Beautiful Botswana

Life in Beautiful Botswana by David Burton | A Smart Sensuality Journey AOC Style

These images cause me to reflect on the first personal writing project that I published as manager of a large university press decades ago. The woman was a nurse with the Peace Corps and she self-published a tender, poignant book of poems about Botswana.