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This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This here!

Cost of clean and legally installed energy = X
Cost of cheap gas turbines, don't bother with permissions, plus a later fine = less than X

That's a no-brainer.

Fuck this attitude. I could say Fuck Capitalism, but it's possible to still make a good profit with X, so this is actually something worse than capitalism. Oh yes, a century of pathological, boundless greed encapsulated in tHe sToCk MaRkEt.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

a century of pathological, boundless greed encapsulated in tHe sToCk MaRkEt

I'm pretty sure that is just describing Capitalism. Trade, Commerce, Profits, and Money all existed before Capitalism. The boundless greed and "line must go up" mentality is what Capitalism brings to the table.