Full title: Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to ‘camouflage’ 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the ‘biomimicry’ effort as ‘lipstick on a pig’ amid a 20-year gas power deal

  • stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    The problem is Microsoft. It’s also the datacentre builders. It’s also the governments.

    All three are a fucking problem

    • zaphod@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I mean, yes but?

      Create a system that incentivizes people or groups to pursue profit ahead of environmental concerns and that’s what you’ll get. POSWID and all that.

      Directing anger at Microsoft or a datacenter builder is a very convenient way for those in power to deflect blame away from those who created the system in the first place.

      The only real, systemic solve is to fix the incentives through taxation and regulation.

      Anything else is futile.

      • stinkytofuisgood@lemmy.ca
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        2 days ago

        I disagree, all three must addressed whether individually or collectively. In today’s America, there is little distinction between corporation and government, especially in the tech sector.