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[–] vane@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

This is 100% green energy because they bought enough green certificates on the market.

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[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The US does not have a functioning certificate market, does it? And ind the EU those ultra durty gas turbines are illegal for use as power plant replacement for data centres, aren't they?

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You can cheat.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a United Nations-run carbon offset scheme allowing countries to fund greenhouse gas emissions-reducing projects in other countries and claim the saved emissions as part of their own efforts to meet international emissions targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism

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