Published: October 31, 2024

  • @WraithGear
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    1 month ago

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

    • @brlemworld
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      221 month ago

      Technically it just makes their carbon footprint even larger

      • @[email protected]
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        129 days 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)

    • @SilverFlame
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      111 month 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.

        • bean
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          61 month ago

          With huge campuses some business have, I wouldn’t call it negligible. Unless you yourself are running a huge business campus and have some insight on how these noobs should be doing it. 😅

        • @BussyCat
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          129 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            29 days ago

            Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.

            • @BussyCat
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              129 days 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

    • @[email protected]
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      329 days ago

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

      • @BlitzoTheOisSilent
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        529 days 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
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        129 days ago

        Working on reactivating Three Mile Island.