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Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65% (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The building material isn’t the problem. The electricity used and the air conditioning are the problem. AI is only going to make this worse. Making a building from wood isn’t going to make a difference.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They're literally recommissioning old NPPs and potentially commissioning brand new ones to get more cleanISH energy to power their data centers for AI in particular. But even if you get zero emissions energy, there's a lot of emissions in the construction itself, which they seem to actually be addressing here.

Or they could be doing this just for the greenwashing, which is pretty likely with a gigacorporation like Microsoft.

That said, the timber constructions would likely look way better than concrete or steel so I'm all for it