Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoMicrosoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissionsnews.microsoft.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissionsnews.microsoft.comJoker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBussyCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoLike starting up a nuclear power plant to avoid burning fossil fuels?
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 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-up1·2 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