Microsoft released its 2024 environmental report in May, and Google released its report in June. Both companies have a goal of zero net emissions by 2030. Both are on track to miss this goal — and …
Switch off your air conditioner, we need the power to make pictures of pretty ladies with several fingers on each hand and the wrong number of arms.
This right there makes me angry every time I think about it. My local government keeps promoting energetic sobriety: wash your clothes in the middle of the night, freeze your peasant ass off all winter, etc. My local government also sells power for dirt cheap to fucking global corporations. Furthermore AI is pushing data center power consumption through the roof. To think the techbros are trying to frame AI as the solution for sucking every little drop of inefficiency out of households. Maybe start by producing less green house gas then fucking aviation before pretending you’re not part of the problem.
This right there makes me angry every time I think about it. My local government keeps promoting energetic sobriety: wash your clothes in the middle of the night, freeze your peasant ass off all winter, etc. My local government also sells power for dirt cheap to fucking global corporations. Furthermore AI is pushing data center power consumption through the roof. To think the techbros are trying to frame AI as the solution for sucking every little drop of inefficiency out of households. Maybe start by producing less green house gas then fucking aviation before pretending you’re not part of the problem.
People are wising up to this clown shit.
This is up there with plastic “recycling”