Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 2 days agoI 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.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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