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North Holland is quickly rising in datacenter fame... They also have an ongoing conflict between local and higher level government about Microsoft building a hu
by t0mas88 6y ago
North Holland is quickly rising in datacenter fame... They also have an ongoing conflict between local and higher level government about Microsoft building a huge datacenter and using all their renewable (wind) energy.
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- stingraycharles 6y agoCan confirm, it’s kind of ridiculous to build all kinds of renewable energy sources only to have them cause a massive increase in datacenter electricity usage, because they want to become 100% renewable. It would maybe be OK if they weren’t subsidized as heavily.
- 542458 6y agoHonestly, this sounds like a “don’t hate the player, hate the game” thing to me. If you subsidize something, IMO it should come as no surprise that people want to take advantage of that subsidy. If people they don’t want to use that subsidy are using it, they probably should have written the terms and conditions more explicitly.
- stingraycharles 6y agoOf course, I’m not blaming Microsoft at all, it’s just smart business on their part. I blame the regulators for not having the foresight to codify into some law that would prevent this situation.
- kazen44 6y agoAlso, the electricty grid around amsterdam is basically filled to the brim, and there has been a ban on expending datacenters in the area because of energy concerns. In my opinion this is quite a good thing, considering this would ditribute the datacenters more across the netherlands.
- duxup 6y agoMan that sounds bit like: "We think people should use renewable energy!" "Oh no, we didn't mean them!"