<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delish</author><text>It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I would have said these are advertisements. I don&amp;#x27;t dislike sustainability, but I thought those function as advertisements because you can expect to get more sustainability &amp;quot;for free&amp;quot; over time, because of many things (Moore&amp;#x27;s Law, ephemeralization, societal investment). So of course savvy corporations publish sustainability reports that say, &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re doin&amp;#x27; great : ).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I&amp;#x27;d argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclosure of the increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1vuio0pswjnm7</author><text>&amp;quot;Therefore I&amp;#x27;d argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclsoure of the increase.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, one could argue the increase shows their commitment to profit at the expense of the environment and the voluntary disclosure shows a commitment to greenwashing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft&apos;s Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delish</author><text>It is praiseworthy Microsoft straightforwardly reported the increase.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t paid attention to these kinds of optional disclosures. Never thought about it but were I asked I would have said these are advertisements. I don&amp;#x27;t dislike sustainability, but I thought those function as advertisements because you can expect to get more sustainability &amp;quot;for free&amp;quot; over time, because of many things (Moore&amp;#x27;s Law, ephemeralization, societal investment). So of course savvy corporations publish sustainability reports that say, &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;re doin&amp;#x27; great : ).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I&amp;#x27;d argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclosure of the increase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nition</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s funny how that happens sometimes. Reminds me of the United Nations&amp;#x27; &amp;quot;Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples&amp;quot;. The only four countries that didn&amp;#x27;t sign it initially were the ones that actually looked at it and thought about whether they could really achieve it.</text></comment>