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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.
It doesn’t seem like they were doing anything about it before the big AI push anyway.
Trusting corporations to not be evil is hilariously stupid.
Just fucking regulate them.
Living on this planet and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible.
In Accelerando,
spoiler
Humanity 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.
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
