Microsoft and other tech giants like to promote the environmentally-friendly idea of green IT. Microsoft says it is committed to achieving carbon neutrality beginning in fiscal year 2013. As Microsoft server farms grow, so do its diesel generators, as do the company’s diesel generators. Microsoft tried to erase a $210,000 penalty the utility said the company owed for overestimating its power use, records show. Microsoft threatened to continue burning power in what it acknowledged was an “unnecessarily wasteful” way until the fine was substantially cut.”]