cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49851746

Big Tech is moving towards fossil fuels, coincidentally this is happening after the hopped on the Trump-Train, $$$ are calling ;)

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

    Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

    You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

    For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK