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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Except for that largest polluter in the country part. Our children and their children’s children and so on will curse our generation for what we did to them.

Not if the benefits of automating basically all forms of labor reach them.

We have fully automated AI slop TikTok feeds and it only cost the earth.

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Please, yea it can, it just takes a full investment and outlawing of the fossil fuel industry that bribe everyone to say that its impossible.

The average grocery store food item travels more than 3k miles to reach its destination from the source. Let me know how you're going to make that work w/o diesel.

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The system will not survive another decade burning fossil fuels.

The consequences are already baked in, the only question is how badly it will play out & who will get the short end of the stick.

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Not if the benefits of automating basically all forms of labor reach them.

We have fully automated AI slop TikTok feeds and it only cost the earth.

Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for sharebolders

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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The average grocery store food item travels more than 3k miles to reach its destination from the source. Let me know how you're going to make that work w/o diesel.

1. My food does not, why does yours 2. There are many alternatives to fossil diesel 3. The alternatives involved decentralised technology, so is actively opposed by entrenched interests who would burn the world for a dollar

Because I live in a city w/ an unsustainable ecological footprint & so does basically the rest of the industrialized world.

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Please, yea it can, it just takes a full investment and outlawing of the fossil fuel industry that bribe everyone to say that its impossible.

The average grocery store food item travels more than 3k miles to reach its destination from the source. Let me know how you're going to make that work w/o diesel.

The solution to that would be "locavore":

https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-a-locavore-5118259

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Let's add as well "SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels" to the mix :o( https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/spacexs-terafab-will-rely-...

Don't understand why. AI training can be run during the sunny days. Could be a good PR opportunity for Musk, I'm surprised he doesn't take it. Especially if he buys from his own company.

»Don't understand why.«

Because you cannot turn a large datacenter with thousands of aggregates, power supplies and so on off and on like a toaster.

Re: Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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Don't understand why. AI training can be run during the sunny days. Could be a good PR opportunity for Musk, I'm surprised he doesn't take it. Especially if he buys from his own company.

It’s an industrial supply bottleneck and rollout timeline incompatibility rather than a Dr Doom Evil Genius Complex that prevents everyone from deploying solar. The race dynamics make the discount rate on GPU deployments very high. Solar is preferable when you have a ton of unproductive land and longer timelines to set it up - it’s certainly going to be cheaper than gas when everyone goes sets up NG plants as option…

»It’s an industrial supply bottleneck and rollout timeline incompatibility rather than a Dr Doom Evil Genius Complex that prevents everyone from deploying solar.«

No, it's just physics.

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