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Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions(news.microsoft.com)

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Published: October 31, 2024

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CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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What does a datacenter need a huge glass front for? Slashing carbon emissions? Yeah right.

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bebabalula@feddit.dk
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Talk about putting lipstick on a pig…

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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If they really cared about carbon emissions, they would shut down all of their AI crap.

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WraithGear@lemmy.world
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This is a puff peice to distract. Microsoft has made no effort to lessen their carbon footprint.

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SilverFlame@lemmy.world
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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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brlemworld@lemmy.world
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Technically it just makes their carbon footprint even larger

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Cryan24@lemmy.world
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So lots of heat plus combustible material… That sounds like a winning idea to me.

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Blemgo@lemmy.world
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If memory serves right, one of Germany’s datacenters went up in flames a few years ago because they had wooden flooring and no adequate fire suppression systems.

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aeno@discuss.tchncs.de
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It was OVH in France

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