With Windows laptops (even laptops made by third parties) all integrating AI to the OS level, and Apple (purportedly) preparing to do the same thing, it feels like everyone is taking a sledgehammer to their climate goals and pushing us even faster towards climate collapse. All for an embarrassing technology that will never be as good as its evangelists claim.
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in reply to @jen-and-aster's post:
You know this would be a fun question to pose to Apple in particular, because they've started incorporating the actual power usage of the devices they manufacture in their climate goals math, as well as their own data centers. If they do what's rumored and use a third party GPT service like Gemini or ChatGPT for some of their features they're announcing this year, it's fully appropriate to ask if they're calculating that into their climate goals.
we are all going to die and its going to be for such a stupid reason
in reply to @margot's post:
Georgia's projected energy needs recently had to be revised up by 1700% i'm sure it's nothing
Could be - the root cause is data centers, whether IBM's or anyone else's. It's a national trend, just concentrated more in some states than others.
Okay, I looked it up, there is a Watson team in Atlanta, but it's not based there.
relatedly it is hugely dispiriting that the US' real and laudable throw-a-shit-ton-of-money-at-renewable-energy tax credit program - which is fueling massive energy infrastructure improvements particularly with solar - is subsidizing data center growth more than it's helping the environment. it's like when gas gets cheaper everyone just drives more.
Make sure you and everyone you know disables it: https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-turn-off-or-remove-windows-copilot-on-windows-11/
Help out your clueless relatives on how to disable it if possible, and spread the word to anybody who gets a Windows 11 computer