So how would this work? Does this mean Microsoft will build a directly connected data center nearby?
Or is Microsoft just buying power from the plant's owner on the energy market?
Or is Microsoft just buying power from the plant's owner on the energy market?
A lot of renewable energy projects were financed through similar agreements, called PPAs.
There are pros and cons of each approach, market-based is a little less intuitive but not necessarily worse, it depends on the application.
They are better for the corps communication and worse for anyone else.
Transporting electricity over distance has a non trivial cost in $ but also ressources and energy, as well as relocating an industry near a clean energy source or optimizing the production units.
Carbon-matching systems are great for entreprise wanting to claim they don’t produce carbon (24/7 carbon neutral) while they do. It does not depict the CO2E one (entreprise) did product de facto.