Notes from Central Taiwan: Are the wind machines destroying Taiwan’s oyster industry? The title didn’t mince words: “AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages.”The article summarized the situation, which it described as wind machines versus poor rural folk. A 2019 article on pollution from oyster farming observed that the beaches of western Taiwan are littered with styrofoam from oyster production. The same process is slowly unwinding in the farmed oyster industry. The wind machines in the Taiwan Strait are thus more harbingers than causes of the oyster industry’s declining future.

Source: Taipei Times January 14, 2026 17:17 UTC