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Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the 'biomimicry' effort as 'lipstick on a pig' amid a 20-year gas… (www.tomshardware.com)
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Full title: Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the 'biomimicry' effort as 'lipstick on a pig' amid a 20-year gas power deal

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Power plants typically connect via the grid, hence aren't local to the data center. Changing over is trivial.

But they don't have to, and they don't generally ask, just do.

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