Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions

WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Technically it just makes their carbon footprint even larger

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  • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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• Syd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not supporting Microsoft, but didn’t they just lease out a nuclear power plant to reduce their carbon emissions?

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  • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • potpotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Working on reactivating Three Mile Island.

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• SilverFlame@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah.

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