Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are quietly helping Big Oil destroy the climate

[turbinetree]

So much for Google's slogan, "Don't be evil."
Joe Romm
Feb 28, 2019, 11:59 am

ExxonMobil and Microsoft announced last week that they are partnering in the “largest-ever oil and gas” deal to use cloud computing, which the corporations say will boost production up to 50,000 barrels of oil per day by 2025.

Microsoft likes to tout how it’s running its operations on 100 percent renewable energy and embracing the Paris climate agreement. The company’s founder, Bill Gates, also portrays himself as a champion of climate action.

But the tech giant is working overtime to close deals with the world’s biggest oil companies to help them boost fossil fuel production using the latest information technology, such as cloud computing, which enables companies to capture, store, and analyze vast amount of data in real time.

And Microsoft isn’t alone. Many of the most well-known tech giants we think of as green and sustainable — including Amazon and Google — are helping the dirtiest polluters increase production of climate-destroying fossil fuels.

https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-google-microsoft-oil-climate-b8b1dd15f115/

It's like "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine".

And then to top it all off they pay no taxes, to clean up this shit, they are helping to promote.......FUCK THEM....................

[theophilus]

1. It confuses me but I guess that these folks think that being rich will allow them to

survive in the dystopian world of the near future. Or, perhaps, they still hold to the hope that they will die of old age before things get really bad. I believe they are wrong on both counts and I hope that all of us "little people" will rise up like a zombie apocalypse and take our cries for "foooood" right to the air intakes of their underground bunkers and deal with the rich scum accordingly. They should not be allowed to do this or get away with what they have done so far.