> Making sure your electricity comes from wind, solar or nuclear power is a logical first step. Google itself, for example, says it has been running entirely on green electricity since 2015.
Story misses a crucial point:
๐ The goal isn't just to add green power. The goal is to emit less CO2!
New green capacity needs to replace old dirty stuff. Not be gobbled up by new data centers for AI.
Also, when Google says it's been running "entirely on green power", do they actually mean that all the power they are using has been physically generated from renewables?
Or did they just buy some carbon offsets and called it a day? ๐
Again, what matters is how much CO2 gets actually pumped into the air.
Not what a shady startup somewhere pinky-promised that maybe one day they could remove, or their forest โ currently in the form of seedlings โ will sequester: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/50689/
@alcinnz yeah, having worked at a (tiny) data center, I had the pleasure of watching diesel generators take over when mains failed once or twice.
Honestly, I don't mind the emergency diesel power. It's emergency, it barely ever runs, it's a tiny drop in the ocean, all told.
What I do mind very much is the sleight of hand around carbon offsets, and pretending that simply adding green capacity is the same as replacing dirty capacity with it.
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Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! ๐คก Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!
Whenever a manager at a company (especially a large one) says:
> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you at this time
โฆask yourself if what they really mean is:
> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you and a huge payout (dividends, bonuses, etc) for the management and stockholders simultaneously, and our priorities are obvious.
You'd be surprised how often that's the case.
Oh, and get into the habit of reading any available financial disclosures before having that talk! Just sayinโฆ
This smells of the naรฏve "we can all become billionaires and exploit everyone else" mindset that is holding back any serious labor-supporting regulations.
Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.