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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.
This is a puff peice to distract. Microsoft has made no effort to lessen their carbon footprint.
I recently had a tour of the Redmond campus. They have multiple geothermal wells for power as well as an air conditioning system that uses almost no energy, it was pretty neat.
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
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