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AWS is not a greener solution because it fails to solve the primary goal i.e. DIY, decentralisation and self-ownership. Besides, the environmental cost of AWS
by Fluorescence 2y ago
AWS is not a greener solution because it fails to solve the primary goal i.e. DIY, decentralisation and self-ownership.
Besides, the environmental cost of AWS is not the power-draw of your VPS, it's the externalities of monopolistic-capitalism. You are not just funding private jets but a fascist oligarchy and handing them control. It's not even scifi doomerism any more. We are watching in real-time as American oligarchs dismantle environmental laws and I expect there will be glowing editorials in the AWS owner's newspaper.
In a similar vein, I presume that providing AWS as a publicly owned utility (socialism) would also not achieve their goals of individual self-sufficiency. I presume it's more prepper-ish than utopian and considers state centralisation too vulnerable to capture by negative regimes.