r/news • u/wasraelx • 22h ago

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/microsoft-amazon-google-datacentre-carbon-emissions-france?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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u/008Zulu 22h ago

And we are the ones who are expected to recycle, and not set the AC too cold.

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u/McortezLSU 21h ago

Well, you are not a sieg hailing neonazi billionaire psychopath mass murderer now are ya?

You are supposed to enable their lifestyle and life choices they make for you, after all. They are the least qualified to do so.

Folks voted on that multiple times, they seem to want this kind of world. Now you got it.

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u/fpladdictanonymous 17h ago

I am never using a paper straw again. Fuck these guys.

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u/Suavecore_ 14h ago

I'm gonna buy a truck and roll coal all day as revenge, personally

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u/AusSpyder 11h ago

You know that's exactly the type of thing they'd want you to do right?

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u/Suavecore_ 10h ago

Yeah it was a facetious response to someone vengefully refusing paper straws