News Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65%

[Admin]

Microsoft is trying to use wood material instead of concrete for its Northern Virgina data centers in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65% : Read more

 

[Kondamin]

Wouldn’t it be more interesting to make the building in a manner that they will remain useful for longer.

Wouldn’t be all that surprised to see all these new data centres be tore down in 20 years or sooner

 

[TheOtherOne]

Lets chop more trees off, whatever are left on this planet!

Also, in case of any fire incident, whoops! 😵

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Wouldn't that make their Data Center vulnerable to:
1) Termites
2) Fire
3) Easier to physically breach by hostile forces?

 

[MoxNix]

Does anyone else find it funny when nuclear power is referred to as clean or cleaner power?

 

[Grobe]

It's very funny that MS seemingly become climate friendly consider the removal of hardware support on W11 is estimated to cause a garbage dump of about 240 million computers <source>.