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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:Wait, what? by Locutus · · Score: 0, Troll

    they probably over stated how many people would be using their services( servers ) so they got tax breaks etc for putting the data center there with the understanding of how much they'd spend on things like energy. These "expenses" were calculated for how much revenue was put back into the community/State/etc.

    So nobody is using BING and hotmail usage is going down so they are not using enough energy and get fined for not meeting their obligations. Make sense now?

    LoB

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  2. Re:Wait, what? by lister+king+of+smeg · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry its about to pick up with windows 8 requiring a Microsoft email account and having bing built in along with integrated skydrive and Microsoft office (web version) zune music service, xbox live, and every possible windows live component they can cram into it. They will have absolutely enormous usage even if windows 8 is a flop because it will ship by default on so may computers.

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