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Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)
submitted 11 months ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

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[-] CanadianNomad@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

I wonder if they'd allow it to be a bit of an artificial reef... I'd like that concept.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I doubt they'd be able to stop it from becoming one, especially if they don't want to spend the server downtime to haul it out for repainting.

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