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Rather than using the traditional materials of steel and concrete for the entire build, Microsoft is using cross-laminated timber (CLT) for a new data center in Northern Virginia. The experiment is part of the company's drive to become carbon negative by 2030 and offset all its emissions since its founding (in 1975) by 2050.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But they should be secure from attack. We are talking about a data center housing lots of important data.

I'm sure MS has figured that part out but I wonder how.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What makes you think that a big corporation, this one in particular, wants to do due diligence?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Because if they didn't there would be compliance issues which would lead to customers moving to AWS