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What? Amazon lying about something? They would never! /s How much do you want to bet that this BS reporting is tied to tax breaks that they don't deserve?

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>A report (PDF) from the group, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, argues that only 22% of the company's data centers in the U.S. actually run on clean power. The employees looked at where each data center was located and the mix of power on the regional grids -- how much was coming from coal, gas, or oil versus solar or wind. Amazon, like many other companies, buys renewable energy credits (RECs) for a certain amount of clean power that's produced by a solar plant or wind farm. In theory, RECs are supposed to push new renewable energy to get built. In reality, that doesn't always happen. The employee research found that 68% of Amazon's RECs are unbundled, meaning that they didn't fund new renewable infrastructure, but gave credit for renewables that already existed or were already going to be built.

What? Amazon lying about something? They would never! /s How much do you want to bet that this BS reporting is tied to tax breaks that they don't deserve? Archive: https://archive.today/NWp0B From the post: >>A report (PDF) from the group, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, argues that only 22% of the company's data centers in the U.S. actually run on clean power. The employees looked at where each data center was located and the mix of power on the regional grids -- how much was coming from coal, gas, or oil versus solar or wind. Amazon, like many other companies, buys renewable energy credits (RECs) for a certain amount of clean power that's produced by a solar plant or wind farm. In theory, RECs are supposed to push new renewable energy to get built. In reality, that doesn't always happen. The employee research found that 68% of Amazon's RECs are unbundled, meaning that they didn't fund new renewable infrastructure, but gave credit for renewables that already existed or were already going to be built.

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All accounting tricks. The thing is, power lines transmit power. You can't differentiate "clean" power from "dirty", what ever that means. Accounting tricks allow them to claim they buy only "clean" power, but there's no way to separate the origin of the power.

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You have to add the carbon offsets in. Giving money to jews decreases CO2 emissions or something.