beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoEPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution lawswww.epa.govexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1152arrow-down1external-linkEPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution lawswww.epa.govbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareBooBees@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 months agoSo every company can slap a windows machine next to their pollution dumping generators and call it a data center now.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-23 months agoNo, the ruling sends to be as long as it’s not a publicly contracted utility you can polute as much as you want. That is to say, basically anything the rich want to do to pollute is fine as long as they don’t share it with the plebs.
So every company can slap a windows machine next to their pollution dumping generators and call it a data center now.
No, the ruling sends to be as long as it’s not a publicly contracted utility you can polute as much as you want.
That is to say, basically anything the rich want to do to pollute is fine as long as they don’t share it with the plebs.