“inaction”… This is how disinformation spreads. As an Amazon employee she should know that Amazon’s AWS (which has committed to achieving 100% renewable energy) dramatically shrinks the carbon emissions footprint of data centers companies would’ve otherwise needed to build.https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1134513118166388736 …
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Replying to @Khanoisseur
I feel your tweet is misleading as usage increases on more cost efficient platforms because you do stuff that wouldn’t have been practical in a traditional data center. There is no date on the 100% renewable commitment so incredibly weak and way behind Google.
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Replying to @MatthewPCooke @Khanoisseur
And many others. Walmart set a goal to be powered by 50% renewable sources by 2025, and has currently achieved 28% of that. Microsoft pledged to cut emissions by 75% by 2030.
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Replying to @emahlee @MatthewPCooke
Amazon AWS already exceeded 50% renewable energy usage last year so you can extrapolate when it will achieve 100% - the more it invests in R&D (already the biggest investor) the faster it can hit 100% targets. So buy more from Amazon!https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/sustainability-timeline/ …
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No you can't extrapolate anything. In fact, the more it grows and doesn't invest the lower the percentage. Amazon does not share public information on its energy usage, so we literally don't know if that 50% is even true. You know Amazon doesn't even own its renewable resources?
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No, you can't. And Amazon's own behavior proves this. From 2014-2016 Amazon "made admirable strides toward achieving its goal, bankrolling large solar plants and wind farms. Then, it stopped." 1/nhttps://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828 …
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Until the very day @bcmerchant's article published, "Amazon hadn't announced any new deals to supply clean energy to its data centers since 2016." And this comes after a punch of pressure from employees.
Meanwhile, Amazon was busy wooing oil and gas business.
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