Amazon's carbon footprint spread 18% in 2021

Amazon increased its total carbon footprint by 18 percent during 2021, despite promises to transition entirely to renewable energy for its operations before the end of the decade. In its defense, the cloud services giant said it has been working to increase efficiency, and still aims to hit net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. …

[Steve Button]

Next decade?

A bit like the year of Linux on the desktop?

[Snowy]

Hand me the green paint.

Maybe buy some carbon offsets like Amazon does, makes you look like you carbon neutral while not doing it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Solution

You could always just not expand. Not use more resources than the planet can support. But of course you won't do that, because... money, rich is never rich enough.

[Gene Cash]

Progress!

They're 118% of the way there!

[SundogUK]

"How's that renewable energy transition going?"

I don't care.

[M.V. Lipvig]

Nice prediction

Amazon likely won't be in business anymore in 2040.