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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)
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[–] 53 points 1 month ago (9 children)

It would also be in stark defiance of Amazon’s stated climate goals, which center on reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

That’s not lost on the tech giant. But as Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan told the NYT, the “world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge.”

What the fuck? They looked at the world recently and said "yeah, climate change isn't as much of a problem as it was before"?!?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago

    No, they looked at the blatant corruption from Fatboy McKiddieFiddlers regime and figured, "eh, what's the point of pretending to give a shit. No fucker has got the balls to stop us from fucking thing up."

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    They mean politically, they can get away with this now without blownack, they never gave one single shit about the climate

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The same company that will same day deliver a single tube of toothpaste to my door doesn't care about carbon emissions? What?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    On one hand that sounds bad, but if that delivery driver is dropping off enough things in one run that would have been individual people driving to a store, does it balance out?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but Amazon in particular will also bag/box every solitary thing. Not sure if it balances, but it's an interesting question when you put it that way.

    Still, I expect they prioritize meeting service levels over fuel economy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    True. Definitely not saying they are more efficient or vouching for them, just a curious thought. They definitely do a lot of stupid shit like, as you said, bag individual items that absolutely do not need it. Or worse, I've ordered groceries through them and I'll get a bag that contains one onion, meanwhile it could have gone into literally any other bag. I'm guessing a byproduct of some weird logistics design sacrificing all else over internal efficiency.

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