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Microsoft ignores emission goals to do AI (hexbear.net)
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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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[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

And just like crypto, it's all for nothing.

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Literally. I don’t really support ai or the optimism around it is very unwarranted even on here. I kinda wish it did gain sentience and try to fight back like in the movies, but it doesn’t even look it it can do that. Just a waste of resources all around.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

the thing people call "AI" right now is not really AI. It cannot gain sentience no matter how much data you feed into it. Machine learning is a more appropriate term for it

[-] kot@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

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

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

In Accelerando,

spoilerHumanity is forced to the outer edges of the solar system because AI-powered corporations (called 'the vile offspring') hog all the sun's energy to trade derivatives back and forth. Looks like we've figured out a shortcut.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Trusting corporations to not be evil is hilariously stupid.

Just fucking regulate them.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

How exactly were they planning on being "carbon negative" in the first place? Does that mean they were just gonna buy those carbon emission tax bond whatever the fuck they're called, my brain isnt awake yet

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

They were going to shoot carbon into space with a railgun

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Honestly that would be fuckin rad and I'd be 1000% on board

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Living on this planet and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible.

[-] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Things incompatible with capitalism:

Life

Sanity

Health

Democracy

[-] xxd@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 months ago

The thing is, that the important part is not just reaching zero by 2030, it's to minimize the carbon output along the way. For every ton emitted in addition to their plan in these past years, they should be undercutting their plan in the next years. Looking at the stats, that seems highly unlikely to happen, as they'd need to be carbon neutral for all of 2024 only to offset their failures in 2023. It's so frustrating.

[-] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

It doesn't seem like they were doing anything about it before the big AI push anyway.

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