🃏Joker to TechnologyEnglish • edit-21 month agoMicrosoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissionsnews.microsoft.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down135file-text
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minus-square@BussyCatlinkEnglish1•1 month agoLike starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoLike making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.
minus-square@BussyCatlinkEnglish1•1 month agoThe nuclear plant isn’t obsolete… it’s a PWR and with modern fuel cell designs it can reach the same efficiency as modern plants
Like starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.
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