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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.

    Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.

    You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.

    For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK