[FirmwareBurner]

Are Google's, Meta's, Tencent's or Alibaba's AI workloads more environmentally friendly, or what am I missing from this point?

And AI's are destructive for the environment why? Is it more environmentally friendly to waste a lot more human time with less compute power doing mundane repetitive shit for hours that an AI/LLM can summarize or answer in seconds?

With that logic it's also more environmentally friendly to use an ox to plow the fields instead of a diesel John Deer.

[crimbles]

No they are just as bad.

[FirmwareBurner]

Then why single out Microsoft? And you haven't explained why are they bad.

[rpy]

This thread is about Microsoft, it’s pointing out their hypocrisy feigning concern about the environmental footprint of their cloud infrastructure.

[FirmwareBurner]

Still no answer on why AIs are bad for the environment compared to not using AIs.

[croes]

https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume

[FirmwareBurner]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.