• Botzo@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      https://datacenters.google/operating-sustainably/

      It looks like they’re not changing their emissions/sustainability goals for the data centers, which honestly is better than every other player right now.

      The political climate makes greenwashing problematic, which is some real irony.

      I shit on Google for lots of reasons, but barring a fundamental change in the market, at least they’re building renewable energy and taking the local water table into account in decision-making.

      Pichai is a McKinsey husk and most of their leadership are yes men. Somehow they’re still better than Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and obviously better than Xitter (with their trailers of methane burning generators).

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        19 hours ago

        Being better than Meta is not exactly a high bar to clear.😄

        Anyway, it’s nice to see that Google is taking at least one thing seriously.

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        Nah. Rookie numbers. Burning high sulfur coal is the way to maximize pollution, suffering and death. Might not be as cheap as solar, but that’s the price you have to pay if you want to be the number one enemy of humanity and the rest of the planet.