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Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions (news.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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Published: October 31, 2024

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[–] not_that_guy05 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Slash emissions by using the dead bodies of the source that removes carbon?

[–] gsfraley 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I mean, that's the mechanism by which carbon is removed. It goes into tree, tree dies or gets cut down taking all the solidified carbon with it, new tree gets planted in its place to repeat the cycle. In fact, the fastest way to scrub carbon with the practice is to farm trees, assuming you do it sustainably.

[–] db2 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You mean sequestered, not removed. It's one fire away from being back in circulation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Only the current generation of trees. The previous generations that have been broken down into soil are mostly not going back into the atmosphere as co2

[–] credo 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, don’t set any data centers on fire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

But what if I really want to :(

[–] db2 0 points 1 day ago

Noted for the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you propose some alchemy that transforms carbon to another element? Remove carbon from the atmosphere and stop putting more up in there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

graph of binding energy per nucleon for stable nuclei

And gives some energy (and building material) in the process? Yeah, it's just kinda hard.

[–] HappycamperNZ 8 points 1 day ago

So is every tree

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So the best thing you can do with a tree, is to cut it down and use it as materials, if we want to release as little CO2 as possible?

And ofc this depends on new trees being planted in its stead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

And ofc this depends on new trees being planted in its stead.

Hence farming trees...

[–] BombOmOm 12 points 1 day ago

Trees are carbon neutral. They pull the carbon out and sequester it in themselves. When they rot or burn, the carbon is returned.