Corporate decarbonization commitments function as projections, not contracts — and the West Virginia data center exposes the assumption embedded in that distinction. Stand.earth's Bluesky post [2] did not make a speculative argument; it applied basic arithmetic. A single methane-powered facility that raises a company's pollution footprint by 44% does not coexist with a decarbonization goal — it replaces it. The qualifier "this is just one project" [2] is not reassurance. It is the acknowledgment that the pipeline contains more of the same.