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Microsoft to spend $3.2B on expanding cloud and AI in green energy-rich Sweden
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Green energy is bad now?
Energy generation has constraints, whether it's fuel, processing requirements, or the infrastructure's generation capacity.
At best, this is proof of concept that will revolutionize the environmental impacts of Big Tech's new and even more environmentally damaging data centers.
But we've seen that dog and pony show countless times whenever the environmental cost of data centers gets too much press.
This is most likely just a cynical PR prop to wave around, as the rest of the AI facilities aren't run so "greenly".
Definitely a cynical PR move.