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.
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WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This odd a pod price to distract. Microsoft has made no effort to lessen their carbon footprint.
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah.
Syd@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not supporting Microsoft, but didn’t they just lease out a nuclear power plant to reduce their carbon emissions?
BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Three Mile Island, and they want to do it to power their AI development. Not move their current servers and infrastructure to the nuclear power grid.
And the owner of Three Mile Island, who’s working with Microsoft, is trying to get the fed to give him the money needed to get the plant running again. Taxpayer money for Microsoft’s AI project that they’ll reap all the reward from.
potpotato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Working on reactivating Three Mile Island.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically it just makes their carbon footprint even larger
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah this is like people who think they’re “saving money” when they go shopping because there’s a sale. You didn’t save money. You spent it. You just might’ve spent more (depending on the store because a lot of them mark things up just to mark them back to full price)