While I like solar & wind, when oil is drilled, natural gas is often burned off at the drill site. So if it is going to be burned, might as well make electrify from it.
"World Bank is urging energy firms to gather the gas and sell it to businesses and consumers.... Companies can use the gas in mobile electricity generating stations, to power their oil drilling sites, or as a fuel in petrochemical plants."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63051458
https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/ga...
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/cvawx7/e...
This means it isn't securities fraud when Meta tries to meet "climate commitments" due to the greenwashing of fossil gas generation by the state of Louisiana. Louisiana is a low regulation jurisdiction that doesn't care if most of the state ends up a Superfund site, so it is ideal to colocate data centers that are going to burn up a bunch of fossil gas there over their lifetime (when they are unwelcome elsewhere).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
https://www.propublica.org/article/cancer-alley-louisiana-ep...
https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-w...