I highly doubt they were gonna do anything either way. All these big corporations do is buy carbon offsets, which is exactly what they would do as they open more datacenters. It’s a game of averages and as long as they buy enough carbon offsets they can technically say they are net-zero while not changing anything.
Broadly speaking, solar and wind are so cheap and so resilient to long term price shocks that they’ve fully taken over new energy build outs.
This isn’t a question of carbon offsets. It’s a question of “What’s most cost efficient?” And, by the GWh, it is green energy by inches, soon by yards.
Shame all that new capacity is being squandered to digitally masturbate. We could use it to decommission old fossil fuel plants, rather than stacking them up side by side.
I highly doubt they were gonna do anything either way. All these big corporations do is buy carbon offsets, which is exactly what they would do as they open more datacenters. It’s a game of averages and as long as they buy enough carbon offsets they can technically say they are net-zero while not changing anything.
Broadly speaking, solar and wind are so cheap and so resilient to long term price shocks that they’ve fully taken over new energy build outs.
This isn’t a question of carbon offsets. It’s a question of “What’s most cost efficient?” And, by the GWh, it is green energy by inches, soon by yards.
Shame all that new capacity is being squandered to digitally masturbate. We could use it to decommission old fossil fuel plants, rather than stacking them up side by side.