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Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions
(news.microsoft.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
With huge campuses some business have, I wouldn't call it negligible. Unless you yourself are running a huge business campus and have some insight on how these noobs should be doing it. 😅
Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.
The nuclear plant isn’t obsolete… it’s a PWR and with modern fuel cell designs it can reach the same efficiency as modern plants