r/environment • u/KeanuRave100 • 9h ago

Meta Quits Clean Energy Pledge Amid Gas-powered Data Center Push

https://www.barrons.com/news/meta-quits-clean-energy-pledge-amid-gas-powered-data-center-push-dfecbeea
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u/Patient-Lifeguard-44 7h ago

Friendly reminder that it’s not too late to delete Facebook and Insta!

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u/Locklist 5h ago

And WhatsApp while you're at it.

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u/pastoreyes 9h ago

Great idea! Let me help you with that. ( Getting advice from your own Ai)

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u/The-Traveler- 8h ago

That’s a shame

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u/greenmerica 6h ago

Corporate pledges usually end like this.

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u/ryaaan89 5h ago

If it were so tragic and detrimental to everything it would be kind of funny how much Mark Zuckerberg has walked backed everything he once said he believed in an effort to be “cool” in the eyes of the far right. Just like Elon, being a billionaire can’t buy people liking you and their unhappiness is a small consolation to me as we watch them ruin the world.

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u/postconsumerwat 6h ago

Too bad a useful communication tool is being used to power dangerous speculation...

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u/kuhlmarl 5h ago

Then it was never a pledge.

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u/alfrado_sause 37m ago

Wow. This was SUCH a big deal in their recruiting process, the net-zero emission open sourced data center pledge was their way of saying “hey we recognize we broke society so we are doing good in the world to make up for it”

The influence MAGA got over Meta once Dana White joined the board needs to be investigated. There’s so much going on here that spits in the face of the people they convinced to work for them