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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

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so-true Corporations will go green on public pressure. yea

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[โ€“] kot@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only reason people think the goal of "AI" research is to create sentient machines is because of science fiction movies.

[โ€“] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

that and marketing campaigns by companies like OpenAI trying to convince people that their product is more capable than it actually is