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This is made perfectly obvious by "running on 100% renewables".

You can see more details on https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/renewable...

It's when there are mentions of "net zero" that carbon credits are purchased (which Amazon does too, but not for what we're talking about).

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They're still pretty squirrelly about the specifics of their commitment, though. In particular, it's not clear if it's hourly accounting (but the fact that they don't say so suggests to me that it isn't), and there doesn't seem to be any discussion of additionality. In other words: it might be that exactly the same amount of renewable generation, and exactly the same amount of fossil-fuel generation, are going to occur with this pledge as would have without, and this is just shuffling some numbers between columns in a spreadsheet.

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