Published: October 31, 2024

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

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

    • Syd@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

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

      • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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        5 hours 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.

    • SilverFlame@lemmy.world
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      2 days 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.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference

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            3 hours ago

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

            • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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              12 minutes 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

        • bean@lemmy.world
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          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. 😅