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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. Wait, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You get fined for saving electricity now?
    Where is this world going...

    1. Re:Wait, what? by El+Puerco+Loco · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, what kind of sneaky company would ever write it's contracts in such a way that you have to pay for their product whether you use it or not?

    2. Re:Wait, what? by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know that making shit up and putting "probably" in front of it doesn't make it correct, right?

      Probably not.

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  2. How? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

    To avoid similar penalties for 'underconsumption of electricity' this year, the data center burned through $70,000 worth of electricity in three days.

    What'd they do, shift all the load to AMD servers?

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  3. Re:stupid inaccurate title as usual by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought they were a music label?