Microsoft 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
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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

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    but why not just keep the vents on the seafloor…no boat is needed.

    …

    Yes, you can not “move” a geothermal vent from the ocean floor, and especially not onto a boat…

    The boat is what’s needed to sink the equipment deep to the ocean floor.

    I think the real problem is, you don’t know what a geothermal vent actually is.

    https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents/

    The entire reason these are perfect is it’s near boiling water surrounded by deep sea near frozen temps. You don’t get that anywhere near a shore. And even if you did, doing it 20 miles or 200 miles from any shore is the same amount of effort.

    But I got to tap out here