Wait, it does not run on solar, even partially? JFC.

edit: yep.

Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of energy to a planned data center in Pecos County. Should it come online as planned, the plant’s 35 turbines would be allowed to spew 33 million tons of CO2 a year, the NYT notes, which would easily make it the largest single fount of emissions in the country.

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

🤦

Does greed know no end in this country?

If I were king they could run data centers with solar and fans. No outside power, no outside water.

This thing is 7.65GW. The largest solar array in the US is 900MW and uses 4600-5000 acres. The scale to do this on solar alone is bonkers, but not impossible.

You would need to at least 4x provision it which means a 30GW solar array, and 156,000 acres, before getting into battery storage for non sunny times.

It'd be nice to use some solar absolutely, but this is better suited to nuclear.

Edit: And if you aren't storing / over provision to store, then you still need the peak output from another source anyway and these things likely always run near peak as they are constantly in use, so the size of the non-solar source doesn't reduce, only its output during the sunny day time hours. So you end up with 7.65GW of natural gas still, but maybe they also build a 1GW solar farm on the side.

And don't forget to vote for the lesser evil party that will allow amazon to build just a dozen of these enormous datacenters instead of even more

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."

"current gov allows us to do anything so we don't care anymore because that's cheaper"

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

It's those pesky Canadians again, it's all their fault for mismanaging the fires, not the fact we are cooking ourselves alive.

Or maybe "eh, it's fucked anyways, let's make red line go up".

They have enough money for generations of their children to live as untouchables. They don’t need to care about their kids.

they wouldn't be able to do shit if we didn't enable them to do it; point the anger at the right place.

If the U.S. blew this up, I'd concede that the U.S. actually does help the world from time to time.

How do you think they're clearing the native residents off the land?

Don't tempt me to rewatch all of SG1 again >.>

A key thing there is that the bunker dwellers were at least eugenicists if not outright Nazi analogues and they were deliberately killing everyone outside as untermensch, it wasn't just a callous side effect of their facility.

I need to watch it. I've never seen it. I'm too young I guess.

Pharaoh ants.

Concrete, steel girders, and server frames don't combust easy, unfortunately.

Most "we plant a tree for every _____" things are just scams. They plant the trees, sometimes as monocrops that could never become a healthy forest, and usually without monitoring the trees or guaranteeing their survival into at least early-maturity.

And we gotta be negative. Net 0 is a nice milestone on the way to build a future for our children.

More context:

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.”

“We’re being transparent about the challenges, investing in innovation, and delivering measurable results,” Callahan continued. “Growth and sustainability don’t have to be in opposition — in fact, our results show they reinforce each other.”

That is so cynical.

The USA and its legislation (10 year moratorium on all AI regulation) is what changed.

The world is continuously and slowly going in the same direction since they "pledged". Nothing has changed there.