🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoMicrosoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissionsnews.microsoft.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up185file-text
arrow-up185external-linkMicrosoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissionsnews.microsoft.com🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoLike starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
minus-squaresemlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-229 days agoLike making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days 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