[crimbles]

Is that the same Microsoft which is throwing money into running environmentally destructive AI workloads as their key business driver?

[formerly_proven]

Same Microsoft that's forcing roughly 250 million perfectly fine PCs to be replaced due to new Windows 11 "requirements" and Windows 10 EOL.

[croes]

But they can't blame the users for that, so that's not a problem.

[ChatGTP]

Love these two comments, nail on the head there.

[FirmwareBurner]

Please stop parroting this FUD. After Windows 10 stops getting supported, Microsoft won't come in your house and throw away your PC in the dumpster or have it stop working for you to have to throw it away. You can keep using it like before.

People don't throw away hardware just because the software stopped getting updates. Although not recommended, there's even people still using Windows 7.

[staplers]

HN: AI is all clean energy from the clouds. Crypto uses coal and toxic waste for power. /s

[123yawaworht456]

reddit: all technology I've been convinced to perceive as morally objectionable is ruining the environment and should be banned by the world government.

[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.