Microsoft Pollutes To Avoid Fines 295
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."
Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
You get fined for saving electricity now?
Where is this world going...
How? (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?
Re:stupid inaccurate title as usual (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, 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?
Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Funny)
Probably not.