Yay Texas the business-friendly state. As if billionaires aren’t raping the planet and all of us hard enough, the lone star state is always looking for way to pump their penises just a little bit bigger.

The red run deregulated Texas Oblast allowed this shit. Kiss the water supplies and eventually the local economy good-bye.

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.”

What the fuck? They looked at the world recently and said "yeah, climate change isn't as much of a problem as it was before"?!?

Remember that Stargate SG1 episode where they find themselves into a huge underground facility that is under attack by external forces. Jack O'Neill accepts to pilot one of their drones to help defend the complex from a wave of bombers and is infuriated to learn that the attacker's bombers were manned while he believed they were unmanned.

At the end it turns out the facility was actively poisoning the entire planet, threatening to wipe out all life and the "attackers" were simply the people of the rest of the world trying to stop it.

That is what the Amazon data center is to me.

Don't forget to use your paper straws people! It's the average person that causes harm to the climate, not businesses. Maybe we should give them more tax breaks.

It doesn't need to be so, the asshole billionaires just don't give a single fuck about anyone but themselves. They don't even care about their kids.

Net zero doesn’t mean lowering pollution btw. Net zero means essentially cancelling out any pollution by planting trees, buying carbon credits, etc. It’s possible to be the biggest polluter and also net zero as a company. If that actually helps the planet is another story.

Torch it. Torch it before its too late.

It's in one of the sunniest places in the US too. 6.0 kWh/m²/day of solar irradiance. There's even already a relatively large solar farm in the same county.

BUT it was ALSO create THREE whole jobs so it's WORTH it!

can we use some patriot missiles for something patriotic?

Welcome to costco, I love you

It's all worth it if my plastic "made in China" hula dancer arrives in time so I can put it on my cars dashboard. /s

Anything from futurism.com should be immediately questioned.

Imagine the local government decides they can't pull water anymore. Like several nuclear reactors having to shut down due to low river levels recently.

The picture of facility in vast desert is baffling.

I know this will be buried but it seems Ai isn't worth anything really if these giant complexes are the price. Just straight up monetarily, who benefits?

I'm so glad I never procreated.

With any luck I'll croak before the worst effects of these decisions manifest.

Ah but the never-ending deluge of Just Dance Vance videos is worth it!

Besides the US military, I'm sure.

It is safe to say im done with amazon deleting my account now I will not support them anymore I worked there and saw how bad workers are treated and used to order stuff from them often im done with them period.