Well, so much for climate pledges and grand goals to cut carbon emissions. It’s more important for ginormous tech companies and the tech-nerd billionaires who own them to keep up with the Joneses in the midst of the modern “AI era,” no matter the consequences. Amazon, one of the cofounders … [continued]
There is no way to sugarcoat this. Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, has pledged to virtually eliminate carbon emissions from its various operations by 2040. However, in the past several years its total emissions have increased rather than declined. Is this an example of Bezos talking out of … [continued]
Depending on which side of the fence you sit on, either Waymo or Tesla is leading the robotaxi revolution in the United States. Objectively, Waymo has far more self-driving cars and robotaxi users, but Tesla fans think only Tesla has the right approach long term, and that improvements in “Full … [continued]
Powering new AI data centers in the US will create emissions equal to those of Australia. Tech madness Is rampant in America.
INDIANAPOLIS — NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with its Merom coal-fired power plant. The Michigan City data center would be Google’s first in the country to contract for a coal plant’s capacity, to Sierra Club knowledge– … [continued]
INDIANAPOLIS – A full page open letter in the Sunday papers of the Indianapolis Star calls on the country’s largest technology company CEOs — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella — to power their data centers with clean energy, or risk failing to meet their own … [continued]
Data centers need huge quantities of water to cool their servers, but if that water contains pollutants, more pollution may result.
Naturally, Waymo was the robotaxi company that led the way into the San Francisco market. Then Cruise came along … but then left after a nasty but completely freakish edge case. Now we have a third robotaxi company that has begun operations in The City by the Bay — Zoox. … [continued]
Ford has followed Hyundai onto the website of obscure web-based bookseller Amazon. Mixing today’s reality with the early days of Amazon sure sounds weird, but it is early discussions about whether people would buy X, Y, or Z online that comes to mind for me first when I see news … [continued]
Amazon has deployed Rivian’s electric delivery vans in Canada for the first time, the companies announced this week. Deployed in the Vancouver area, there are now 50 Rivian EDVs roaming the streets in their Amazon wrapping. As someone living in Florida who has seen these electric delivery vans all over … [continued]
