jen-and-aster
@jen-and-aster

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.


erica
@erica

apple will absolutely still meet their goals by making more of the packaging recycled cardboard and forcing everyone at the cuppertino office to drink recycled piss from the urinals or whatever their plan is. im sure it all broadly aligns 1:1 despite them pushing out a suite of upgraded hardware every year with no meaningful upgrades all the time. like surely doing all of that absolutely offsets the immeasurable amount of shipping emissions and energy use worldwide to make, store, and sell all those products.


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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.

in reply to @margot's post:

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.

in reply to @erica's post:

between this and their iron fist oversight of ecosystem and storefronts it's like... infuriating that they're still the only mobile products i actually like to use. like they do actually take privacy seriously and that stuff is really important to me. my choice is either their bullshit or google selling off every nanosecond of my life to advertisers, it's the worst possible choice.