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Meta thrown off key global clean energy scheme over gas spree (www.rechargenews.com)
submitted 1 month ago by madeindex@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49851746

Big Tech is moving towards fossil fuels, coincidentally this is happening after the hopped on the Trump-Train, $$$ are calling ;)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Meta: "We're getting into VR, it's the next big thing."

VR Market Crashes

Meta: "Well, no sweat, we can just pivot to NFTs"

NFT Market Crashes

Meta: "Shit, damn. Okay, we can just migrate all our efforts to AI. That's booming right now."

AI Market Tilts Alarmingly

Meta: "Fuck! Fuck! We should... uh... Fossil Fuels! We should do Fossil Fuels! That's always a safe bet."

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

The fossil fuels is BECAUSE of the LLM datacenters.

[–] madeindex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 you read Marky Marks entire strategy, are you psychic?! Guess we all know how this will end up then: https://lemmy.world/post/48573158

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 month ago

Why were they even considered a part of it?

Not like Meta did anything to help the planet.

They probably threw a lot of cash at someone to help them look more eco friendly.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year's revenue, not profit.

You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

For scale: Elon Musk's XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That's double the carbon output of the UK