Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.

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.

  • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Or the scale of the fine can be expressed as a percentage of the assets and revenues, to make the fines genuinely dreadful.

    Never mind right sizing the fines. I keep operating from the assumption that we are dealing with largely reasonable people who have a bad take and are correctable.

    Make guillotines great again.

    No new taxea, no fines, no jails, straight to the public square guillotine with this level of malfeasance.