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A photo of Dutch farmland with a massive datacenter on it. A thin line of scrawny trees lines a canal in an attempt to hide the datacenter from view in the far future (if the trees ever grow big enough with the fumes from the data centre's diesel powered generators blasting pollution into the air and the chemicals leaking into the surface water from the cooling system).

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A photo of Dutch farmland with a massive datacenter on it. A thin line of scrawny trees lines a canal in an attempt to hide the datacenter from view in the far future (if the trees ever grow big enough with the fumes from the data centre's diesel powered generators blasting pollution into the air and the chemicals leaking into the surface water from the cooling system).
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l03s (l03s@post.lurk.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 22:44:04 JST l03s

I couldn't help but notice the massive Microsoft data center hiding behind these newly planted trees. ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Little did I know this was part of an ecosystem project! After a Microsoft team had "researched local ecology, including native habitat types and biodiversity, soil health, water and air quality, as well as community agricultural practices" they decided to use "the tools of biomimicry" to enhance their data center.
This... this is biomimicry according to Microsoft.
#datacenter #biomimicry #sustainability #sad

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