In the latest news about the bunch of contemptible rat bastard monopolists headquartered in Seattle ……… No, not that one ………No, not that one EITHER ……… OK, it's Amazon, and they are lying through their teeth about their carbon footprint.
Of course they are lying. It's kind of their thing:
Today, Amazon announced that it hit its 100% renewable electricity goal seven years early. But a group of Amazon employees argues that the company’s math is misleading.
A report 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.
Carbon credits are a scam, as I have noted many times.
Amazon is aware of this, and they don't care. They just want some public relations mojo.
If federal or state regulators want to make the world a better place, antitrust lawsuits, and the rollback of direct and indirect subsidies provided by governments to Amazon would go a long way to doing just that.
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