Published: October 31, 2024
If they really cared about carbon emissions, they would shut down all of their AI crap.
Shut down themselves even better.
Wood? You mean Fire’s Favourite Food?
What does a datacenter need a huge glass front for? Slashing carbon emissions? Yeah right.
Maybe it’s meant to let the sun in and save on the heating… in… a buildind that has significant excess of… nevermind.
This is a puff peice to distract. Microsoft has made no effort to lessen their carbon footprint.
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.
Too bad all that cool stuff is negligible compared to what actually makes a difference
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. 😅
Not supporting Microsoft, but didn’t they just lease out a nuclear power plant to reduce their carbon emissions?
Slash emissions by using the dead bodies of the source that removes carbon?
Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.
I mean, that’s the mechanism by which carbon is removed. It goes into tree, tree dies or gets cut down taking all the solidified carbon with it, new tree gets planted in its place to repeat the cycle. In fact, the fastest way to scrub carbon with the practice is to farm trees, assuming you do it sustainably.
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig…
No no. Those trees died of natural causes. /s
Wood is a carbon sink.
Growing trees and building things out of them is good. Trees are renewable.
We ought not be cutting down forests for it BUT farmed wood is actually a good building material.
Ah yes, greenwashing. Thanks Microsoft.
