At least these sites (its more than Amazon) are being built near the energy source they will consume. Straight out of the ground into a turbine and then into the electron spinners.
Also there's not a lot of anything where these sites are located (Near El Paso). The 4-5 Road Runners who live around there will probably appreciate the change.
West Texas is basically Mad Max 2.
bethekidyouwant•1h ago
Co2 is pollution now?
cebert•1h ago
Yes
goatlover•49m ago
It's the main greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. Where have you been?
mirzap•31m ago
On an industrial scale, yes, of course.
BurningFrog•25m ago
Sure, but it's only damaging globally. It's no more damaging to the local environment than to anywhere else on the planet.
esseph•2m ago
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synack•42m ago
Don't these things get more efficient as they scale up? One big plant is probably better than 30 small ones.
NooneAtAll3•26m ago
efficient in money, nothing is said about other metrics
it's quite possible to have more product made, thus more pollution (or less materials consumed, thus less)
but concentration definitely will rise
khimaros•12m ago
sometime in the energy sector once told me "the solution to pollution is dilution"
casey2•25m ago
This completely ignores carbon capture and offsets. Amazon remains committed to net zero.
_ink_•11m ago
Amazon is not capturing carbon in any meaningful scale and planting trees is great, until they capture fire.
burnt-resistor•23m ago
These jet engine gas turbines create air pollution in the forms of formaldehyde and NOx and noise pollution.
MarkWayneNewton•1h ago
Also there's not a lot of anything where these sites are located (Near El Paso). The 4-5 Road Runners who live around there will probably appreciate the change.
West Texas is basically Mad Max 2.