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Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kafka-runs-the-power-company dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Quincy data center, physical home of Bing and Hotmail, was fined $210,000 last year because the data center used too little electricity. To avoid similar penalties for 'underconsumption of electricity' this year, the data center burned through $70,000 worth of electricity in three days."

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  1. Re:stupid inaccurate title as usual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Would've gotten the same hate if it'd have been Apple too.

  2. Re:This is not a Microsoft issue by icebike · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Its Washington State.

    Run by democrats. It isn't Alaska. Stuff doesn't have to make sense there.

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