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Microsoft is firmly committed to environmentally sustainable AI — except when there’s a sale to be made (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because it still reads correctly with the blacked out bits, it just reads more honestly about how little Microsoft gives a fuck about hydrocarbons, climate, change, or any future that isn't "Microsoft owns everything."

Wrote how Microsoft committed to carbon reduction goals - except all their AI compute would completely blow all their numbers.

Then there's Microsoft's customers, they're marketing AI to the fossil fuel companies as a "powerful tool for finding and developing new oil and gas reserves and maximizing their production."

Microsoft thinks fossil fuels are a market opportunity of $35 billion to $75 billion, especially as the oil and gas industry is turning to Microsoft for guidance.

It's OK -- the problems being caused by AI will be fixed with more AI.