Ich habe mich gewundert, ob die Wimpel wohl vom Betreiber oder einem “Vandalen” montiert worden sind.

“Vandalismus” oder soll das so?

Yeah, but this article describes Microsoft exactly not doing that.

Cutting wood is profitable. Creating clear cuts isn’t.

The renaturation might be really good. I don’t know how the site looked before.

The renaturation not the evaporative cooling.

Power plants typically connect via the grid, hence aren’t local to the data center. Changing over is trivial. All industry generates waste and consumes energy. That’s not their purpose and framing it as such makes you sound like a raving lunatic. Destroying the environment isn’t profitable. Same goes for killing everyone. You have a warped perception of reality.

Yes. But that’s going to create winds and convection, not pollution. Less so if cooled evaporatively or using said wetland as a heat sink(unlikely). They might even be good for the water table.

Data centers aren’t heavy industry. They do emit some minor pollutants but not excessive amounts. You make it sound like there is an open sewer pipe oozing black sludge.

Even if this was sustainable and they did scramble to build new fabs you would have to wait to around 2030 to see any production. And prices would have to grow much higher to finance that bonanza. Writing memory chips is done most efficient to make memory filthy cheap. It still is somewhat affordable considering the die area.

And they probably don’t believe in sustained demand through the next 15 years. Memory prices always have been in flux and those that over invest in times of booms are exiting the market bankrupt. It’s among the most cut throat industries.

They aren’t particularly greedy or morons though. It’s not like they can print more memory than their machines can print and their running full bore.

And getting new printers is expensive and very time consuming. Increasing production is simply put impossible.

You don’t have a customery law right to memory. This applies to most things, really. The shortage definitely is real. The consequences may be Chinese memory makers getting to participate in the market. High profits are bad for many sides for it causes upstarts to get hungry and gives them a foothold in the market.