Microsoft using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the 'biomimicry' effort as 'lipstick on a pig' amid a 20-year gas power deal
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Full title: Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to ‘camouflage’ 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the ‘biomimicry’ effort as ‘lipstick on a pig’ amid a 20-year gas power deal

  • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 小时前

    Power plants typically connect via the grid, hence aren’t local to the data center. Changing over is trivial. All industry generates waste and consumes energy. That’s not their purpose and framing it as such makes you sound like a raving lunatic. Destroying the environment isn’t profitable. Same goes for killing everyone. You have a warped perception of reality.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 小时前

      Destroying the environment isn’t profitable.

      Then they wouldn’t be clearcutting the amazon rainforest.

    • Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vipEnglish
      8·
      3 小时前

      You must not be following the news. Many data centers get local power from on premises gas turbines and more than a couple are doing so illegally. Put ‘ data center gas turbine’ into your favorite news aggregator and there’s hundreds of articles about this.

    • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 小时前

      Not being forced to follow environmental regulations (hence destroying the environment) is significantly more profitable than following them.

      Or do you think op is talking about companies who produce literally nothing but harm to the environment?