Gerry McGovern on Nostr: "In May, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, stated that the company’s 2020 ...
"In May, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, stated that the company’s 2020 “carbon moonshot”—its pledge to remove more carbon than it emits by the end of the decade—is now out of reach thanks to the AI boom. “In many ways,” Smith said, “the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020, if you just think of our own forecast for the expansion of AI and its electrical needs.”"
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