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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

To tie that back to MS, the code base for Windows is crufty af. I expect efficiencies to continue to come from the research and open source domains, but it's fair to point out that corpo only implement efficiencies that cost money if they can't offset that cost onto externalities like cheap labor and foreign resource degradation.