Microsoft 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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Critics question motives and advocate for residents’ needs.
  • Gladaed@feddit.org
    43·
    6 days ago

    If you cannot accept them doing good and reward them for the good there is no incentive to act good. Acting badly, covertly mustn’t be the best way to do things.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      6 days ago

      Yeah no, that’s not how regulation works. These aren’t babies or dogs, we don’t bribe them with “positive reinforcement.” That does not work.

      • Gladaed@feddit.org
        3·
        6 days ago

        But they are profit motivated companies. If they get hatred for doing good it is unprofitable to act good. Of course they aren’t babies, but creating an environment in which dystopian companies farr best is… Unwise.