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

  • BuckFutter@timeyak.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yah but that requires coastal development or in the vicinity of the coast, with increasing sea level rise, that is just going to require these things to be made like giant doomsday bunkers able to survive a life extinguishing event. I still question the need for these data centers.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yah but that requires coastal development or in the vicinity of the coast

      There’s this new thing called “boats”…

      And data cables can (and do) run along the ocean floor, they don’t even need to connect to mainland, they can join an existing cable.

      I still question the need for these data centers

      We needed them before AI and well need them after…

      Finding an environmental positive way to have them is worthwhile. Arguing that it’s expensive literally just means you’re putting a price on our planet. Which is especially stupid since the billionaires are the ones keeping those savings.

      Quit fucking simping for billionaire techbros. Even if you don’t realize it’s what you’re doing, it’s what you’re doing. Fuck their profits the planet matters more.