- The multinational has announced that it wants to build two 72 MW solar parks or macro-solar power plants on foreign territory, but has not reported their location. The billionaire Jeff Bezos is one of the most polluting companies in the tech industry, and with the excuse of covering it, he's gotten into the renewable business in recent years.
Amazon not only has warehouses and lots of battalions of precarious personnel to transport parcels to the houses, but it also has supercomputers or data centers that generate huge electricity consumption.
And now it enters the wind and photovoltaic business to implement not only the electricity consumption of its gigantic factories, but also what has often been denounced as greenwashing in the world of environmentalism.
The multinational wants to build two "large-scale" PV plants in Navarre, as he said this Tuesday by note. Their location is not defined, but their capacity, as these plants would have a total power of 72 megawatts (MW).
It has included both Navarros within the twelve projects it intends to build in the Spanish State. Thus, Amazon wants to add 596 MW to its energy supply from renewables up to 2.9 gigawatts (GW).
The multinational wants to build two "large-scale" PV plants in Navarre, as he said this Tuesday by note. Location is not defined, but capacity, with a combined power of 72 megawatts (MW)
In the note, the multinational has highlighted that it has over 500 wind and photovoltaic projects around the world and that its intention is that 100% of the electricity it uses in 2025 comes from renewables: "In 2023, per fourth year, we have become the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy," he says.
Big tech the biggest polluter
With these kinds of projects, Amazon focuses on "benefits" and job creation for the local economy. The same highlighted in 2022, 2021 and 2020, as you can read in the press room of your website. This news is regularly disseminated by the giant through agencies.
On the contrary, the Bezos company is still unable to reduce the enormous pollution it generates. A recent report by the NGO Global Action Plan notes that the world’s five big tech companies (Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft) allocate billions of euros to absurd action plans to reduce their carbon footprint, but that continue to pollute more and more.
In particular, these companies pollute more carbon than the air sector, global CO? between 2% and 3% of emissions – as they promote hyper-consumption and generate extraordinary energy expenditure through online advertising.
In addition, Amazon is the most polluting company. In 2021, for example, more than 900 airplanes are infected that fly around the world year round.
Venting flies with the tail of others
Many of these photovoltaic projects that the multinational Amazon is talking about in recent years are not owned by it or its subsidiary of Amazon Web Services.
Many of these photovoltaic projects that Amazon uses in the mouth are not owned by it: it invests "through energy purchase agreements", explains the newspaper 'La Marea'.
According to a study carried out by the Madrid newspaper La Marea, it is common that the projects announced publicly in the Spanish State are by themselves from other multinationals operating in the renewable sector, such as Solarcentury, which then passed into the hands of Statkraft.
Thus, the investment itself is made through "energy purchase agreements," as explained to this Amazon newspaper, and not through the direct construction of PV plants, although then it publishes its "benefits."
"All these actions are part of a huge greenwashing campaign of polluting companies in the world," explains La Marea.