Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square419fedilinkarrow-up11.16Kcross-posted to: tech@kbin.social
arrow-up11.16Kexternal-linkMicrosoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactorsfuturism.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square419fedilinkcross-posted to: tech@kbin.social
minus-squarenodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThis is part of their plan to reduce carbon emissions.
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThis is what corporations mean when they say “reduce carbon emissions”
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYou say that like it’s a bad thing
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIt is, because corporate greenwashing will tell you that they reduced their emissions when all they did was scale up production using green energy. Their actual emissions didn’t go down they just went down relative to their growth.
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoI thought this was a generic nuclear bad response, but in that case I definitely agree.
This is part of their plan to reduce carbon emissions.
This is what corporations mean when they say “reduce carbon emissions”
You say that like it’s a bad thing
It is, because corporate greenwashing will tell you that they reduced their emissions when all they did was scale up production using green energy. Their actual emissions didn’t go down they just went down relative to their growth.
I thought this was a generic nuclear bad response, but in that case I definitely agree.