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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1275280
newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
The New RepublicAmazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire CountryAmazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
sounds like a Texas problem to me.
Replying to @Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone
So will all that pollution stay in Texas?
Replying to @besmtt@lemmy.world
Yes, along with anyone’s data.
Replying to @besmtt@lemmy.world
We could just build a big wall all around Texas. Or how about a big glass dome?
Replying to @arotrios@lemmy.world
Oh, boy. Future news headlines are going to rival ‘Florida man’.
" A 5th-generation cattle rancher fires civil war cannons at datacenter’s onsite KV electric lines, uses his tractor to tow live cables 18 miles across his property in the middle of the night, to repower city of Fort Worth after third night of mandatory blackouts…"
Replying to @arotrios@lemmy.world
Amazon is, itself, pollution.