What a joke, unless you stop shoving AI and it's mindboggling demands for energy into everything your not serious about carbon emissions
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What they really care about is investors, some of which happen to care about ESG. The E stands for environment, so this way Microsoft can write many pages of greenwashing nonsense on their ESG report in order to attract investors without actually hurting their bottom line that much. Microsoft looks green, investors are happy, it’s a win-win… Oh but the energy consumption is still through the roof, but we don’t talk about that.
M$, carbon negative?
lol.
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What happens when someone hits it with a truck, plane or explosive?
Concrete and steel can take a beating. Maybe they should just look at low emitting concrete
It blows up, but the redundancy kicks in and the services start running from a different data center.
They're not supposed to be fail proof.
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.
What makes you think that a big corporation, this one in particular, wants to do due diligence?
Because if they didn't there would be compliance issues which would lead to customers moving to AWS