Microsoft Takes The Data Centre Naughty Chair
A week ago, a blog post from Microsoft emerged in which it preened about how green the company’s data centres are, and got quite a bit of news traction. Now, I wonder if it was a smokescreen intended to distract us from truly shocking revelations that were about to appear in the New York Times. While proclaiming to run a very green ship, with energy waste at a minimum, in a town called Quincy in Washington State, Microsoft was actually burning off energy for no benefit at all – except to reduce a fine imposed on it by the local energy provider, according to the NYT.
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