• Snot Flickerman
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    63 days ago

    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.