Ban Microsoft and AI to save the climate
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Clearly we need to ban Microsoft and ban AI in order to “Save The Environment” from Catastrophic Climate Change Armageddon Extinction.
Climate Science Deniers will of course deny this, but they are just crazy Disinformation Conspiracy Theorists who have no idea what they are talking about.
The only way to achieve Microsoft / AI Net Zero by 2030 is to immediately ban all new AI data centers.
And all current AI data centers must be converted to being powered 100% by Renewable Green Cow Farts.
In order to Save The Planet from Climate Extinction.
/ P.S. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, so LinkedIn will also need to convert to becoming powered 100% by Renewable Green Cow Farts.
It’s for the Greater Good.
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● “After pledging to slash its greenhouse gas emissions, Microsoft’s climate pollution has grown by 30 percent as the company prioritizes AI.”
“Microsoft’s producing a lot more planet-heating pollution now than it did when it made a bold climate pledge back in 2020. Its greenhouse gas emissions were actually around 30 percent higher in fiscal year 2023, showing how hard it could be for the company to meet climate goals as it simultaneously races to be a leader in AI.
Training and running AI models is an increasingly energy-hungry endeavor, and the impact that’s having on the climate is just starting to come into view.
Microsoft’s latest sustainability report is a good case study in the conundrum facing big tech companies that made a slew of climate pledges in recent years but could wind up polluting more as they turn their focus to AI.
Back in 2020, Microsoft set a target of becoming carbon negative by the end of the decade.
To translate the jargon, it pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than half and then capture a greater amount of carbon dioxide emissions than it would produce.
It was an audacious commitment to make at the time, considering carbon capture technologies were barely coming into existence.
The company would also have to spur the deployment of way more renewable energy onto power grids where it operates.
Now, it looks like the company’s recent obsession with AI is making that much harder to achieve.
… Data centers used to train AI are even more energy-intensive than traditional data centers that already gobble up a lot of electricity to run servers and cooling systems to prevent overheating.
And Microsoft has plans to build a whole lot more of those data centers now that it’s all in on AI.
The company planned to spend $50 billion over the past fiscal year in order to meet its AI ambitions — a figure it’s expected to surpass in the following year, Bloomberg reports.”