Published: October 31, 2024

    • Random_Character_A
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      1713 days ago

      Maybe it’s meant to let the sun in and save on the heating… in… a buildind that has significant excess of… nevermind.

    • @Sporkbomber@lemm.ee
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      213 days ago

      Clients looking to rent data center space still like to see pretty spaces in their giant concrete boxes. So on a campus there is usually one of the builds that has something prettier for the front admin section.

      But square footage is money, so it’s much smaller.

      They actually go for LEED certification for their spaces a lot of times. So they get an energy efficiency badge for a building that uses the total power of a ~3500 homes (in the builds I have seen) 24/7/365.

    • @gsfraley@lemmy.world
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      3514 days ago

      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.

      • @db2@lemmy.world
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        2414 days ago

        You mean sequestered, not removed. It’s one fire away from being back in circulation.

      • @themurphy@lemmy.ml
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        414 days ago

        So the best thing you can do with a tree, is to cut it down and use it as materials, if we want to release as little CO2 as possible?

        And ofc this depends on new trees being planted in its stead.

        • @gsfraley@lemmy.world
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          112 days ago

          Yes. Growing a tree from sapling to a giant trunk removes significantly more carbon from the atmosphere than an existing trunk sitting there at mass, unable to store much more carbon.

          And yes, that’s why I clarified that new trees would need to be planted, right on the money.

    • BombOmOm
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      1414 days ago

      Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.

    • @SilverFlame@lemmy.world
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      1213 days ago

      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.

        • bean
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          613 days ago

          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. 😅

          • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            12 days ago

            Like making a datacenter so hungry it needs an obsolete nuclear plant, yeah. They should be building new nuclear for existing datacenters.

            • @BussyCat@lemmy.world
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              111 days ago

              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

      • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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        111 days ago

        Yeah this is like people who think they’re “saving money” when they go shopping because there’s a sale. You didn’t save money. You spent it. You just might’ve spent more (depending on the store because a lot of them mark things up just to mark them back to full price)

    • @Syd@lemm.ee
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      312 days ago

      Not supporting Microsoft, but didn’t they just lease out a nuclear power plant to reduce their carbon emissions?

      • @BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
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        412 days ago

        Three Mile Island, and they want to do it to power their AI development. Not move their current servers and infrastructure to the nuclear power grid.

        And the owner of Three Mile Island, who’s working with Microsoft, is trying to get the fed to give him the money needed to get the plant running again. Taxpayer money for Microsoft’s AI project that they’ll reap all the reward from.

    • @Blemgo@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      If memory serves right, one of Germany’s datacenters went up in flames a few years ago because they had wooden flooring and no adequate fire suppression systems.

      EDIT: it was in France, and Europe’s biggest datacenter.

  • veee
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    214 days ago

    Woot! Heavy timber construction!

  • @gencha@lemm.ee
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    1814 days ago

    I’ve also put wood panels on my car to save the environment. It’s pretty useful.