Häyry reagierte auf die lokalen Bedenken hinsichtlich des Energieverbrauchs und der Preise und sagte, dass Microsoft Finnland dies getan habe "Es gilt der strikte Grundsatz, dass sie nicht den Strom nutzen, der heute im Netz vorhanden ist, sondern vorhanden ist [instead] haben sich dazu verpflichtet, die Produktion von erneuerbarem Strom so weit zu steigern, wie sie verbrauchen".
Laut Häyry muss Microsoft gemeinsam mit Fingrid und dem lokalen Netzwerk in die Energieinfrastruktur investieren.
Zu früh, um bei Zweifeln X zu drücken?
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Von YourShowerCompanion
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They can fuck right off
And what will they do on a day that’s not sunny? Or a day that’s not windy? Turn off the data centre? They are just talking absolute bs
A bit beyond the point here but Finland stands on microsoft, unfortunately. When I was at LUT, literally everything was made out of Microsoft’s services.
I hope to see Finland move away from microsoft to either opensource alternatives (afaik there are no real contenders here), or to EU’s homegrown alternatives for the enterprise office tools.
voi ei.. here we go
wow
Look at the news coming from US where local communities are standing against these centers. They’re ahead of many other places and are now seeing the effects: destroying the environments, problems with fresh water and not really any benefit for the local communities.
„the massive amount of energy and water that data centers require to power their servers and cool the equipment. According to the non-governmental organization AlgorithmWatch, based in Berlin and Zurich, a single data center can devour as much energy as a small town“
Well even if you take it at face value, it will increase peak prices on not windy/sunny days. They will not turn the datacenter off on those days. Even if they invest in equivalent amount of yearly production, it will still drive up prices on days like that, and consumers/industry will pay higher prices because of that.
Can we not. Do that
Fuck off microsoft
Data centres are only profitable to the company that owns it, the politicians who they bribed to get them made, and the chip, memory and server manufacturers.
For the general public its a horrendous loss.
1. Barely need to employ people locally. Most of it can be remotely maintained by engineers living and paying taxes in US.
2. Enormous strain on electricity and water resources. Everyone pays for the increased costs of electricity. More of our money also goes in taxes, as govt would love higher cost for electricity at 25.5% VAT.
3. Noise, light and sound pollution for the residents living in the area.
There is literally no reason a country like Finland should allow data centres to be made and exploit its people and resources when the core profits will be made in US. Its equivalent to a few decade back when rich countries sold their garbage to India, China and Bangladesh to be burned so it doesn’t pollute the air locally
Oof. Doubt. X
How will this affect Finland’s water resources and quality once they allow this as a first and maybe more in the future? Finland has one of the cleanest water in the world. I saw discussions in the US about how data centers have affected the water quality from being potable to dirty muddy waters not suitable for drinking anymore.