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The AWS Oil & Gas offering is explicitly about helping "energy companies" find and extract more oil, faster.

From their page: "Accelerate and optimize exploration, drilling, and production".

That's not just keeping the lights on, that's actually accelerating the rate of oil extraction at exactly the time when we need to be ramping down.

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I think an argument could be made that they’re going to dig for that oil anyway and they might as well do it efficiently.

Not strongly. The less efficient they are at extracting it, the more attractive renewable sources of energy become, and the more effort will go into producing them.

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