Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

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7. You're not getting it

FWIW: I purchase solar “credits” from a “farm” which did not exist before (I was on the waiting list, waiting for them to come “on-line.”) Now, I’m not naive, my power comes from “the grid” but I’m partly responsible for solar being put onto the grid which was not there before. (Believe it or not, despite our latitude, New York leads the nation in “community solar.”)

This is not the same situation at all. For 40 years, a nuclear plant has been producing electricity. Now, some of that production is being purchased by Amazon, and the customers which had been purchasing that production are now purchasing electricity generated by other means (i.e. primarily from gas-burning plants, although there is a small amount of “renewable” electricity being generated in Luzerne County.)

This is greenwashing, pure and simple, and you’ve swallowed it, hook, line and sinker.