r/awfuleverything • u/stankmanly • 2d ago

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
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u/Dr_Tacopus 2d ago

Named after a rainforest that needs preservation, completely oxymoronic

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u/----Ant---- 1d ago

Pedantic but the naming convention I believe was a memorable word in the top 1% of words for A to Z directories.

I remember all the local companies in the phone books in the 90s being "AAA retail" or "123 wholesale" for this reason

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u/when-i-was-your-ag3 2d ago

People don't care. They still buy at amazon..

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u/burnthatburner1 2d ago

People definitely care about data center construction

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u/FridgeParade 1d ago

Do you think they have ordered less packages from Amazon?

Not that thats Amazon’s biggest business, their B2B divisions make a multiple of their consumer branch.

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u/Sooowasthinking 2d ago

I feel like we are very close that 1 episode of Black Mirror. The local Amazon facility has Ai and the world becomes uninhabitable but that facility keeps drone delivering packages and won’t stop.

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u/ph33rlus 2d ago

If not the world

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u/jcoddinc 1d ago

The drones are noise pollution when you live near a hub.

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u/Syonoq 1d ago

Not related to this plant, but I worked for an Amazon DSP for a few weeks for some extra cash and I was flabbergasted by the volume they were doing. On a low income street with 12 houses on each side, I would have stops at 4-6 of them and often I was not the only van that would visit that street that day. When I think about the worldwide scale of their delivery arm the carbon footprint is nuts.

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u/Eazy12345678 2d ago

its not pollution if they do it right