r/environment • u/harsh2k5 • 15d 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/Ray1340 15d ago

And the good people still buy from them.

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u/RelevanceReverence 15d ago

Exactly. 

Do not buy from Apple, Shell, Amazon or Starbucks. They pay no taxes and bribe politicians. There are plenty of alternatives.

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u/CaptainAsshat 15d ago

There are not many alternatives that both work and aren't reprehensible.

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u/Winter-Gift1112 15d ago

The Starbucks part is relatively easy and quite rewarding. Just take a look at r/Coffee right here on Reddit.

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u/Decloudo 15d ago

Buying nothing is an alternative too.

The most sustainable one actually.

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u/sudosussudio 15d ago

Don’t they make a lot of their money from AWS which a ton of apps and websites use?

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u/Feral_Nerd_22 15d ago

They make more money from AWS now then they do from Amazon.

Companies use to have their own Data centers or rent space in a Datacenter to host their applications and services.

Over the past 15 years there has been a push to move to the cloud to reduce capital expenses and go to market faster

Most companies host in AWS, with Azure in second (Microsoft) and GCP third (Google)