Silicon and Saltwater: Where Technology Meets the Environment

By James Rusty Batey

What if the same thing that could save a struggling coastal town could also heal the coast around it?

Data centers have a reputation: that they drink rivers dry, strain the power grid, and take from a place without giving anything back. Silicon and Saltwater takes those fears seriously - states each one as strongly as any skeptic would - and then answers it, in plain language, from the deck of a working coast.

Written by a self-made entrepreneur whose own hands have both cooled a server room and held a shoreline in place, this short, clear-eyed guide walks through the real facts on water, power, jobs, and the environment. Then it makes a bolder case: that the revenue from the world's hunger for computing could fund living shorelines, restored marsh, printed oyster reefs, and high-wage careers that finally give a small town's young people a reason to stay.

Part myth-buster, part blueprint, and part love letter to a fishing town on the Georgia coast, it's a hopeful vision for where technology and the environment stop being enemies and start making each other stronger.

Because the machine that takes doesn't have to be the only machine we build.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HD1BC933
• ISBN13: 9798190334821
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"