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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing (cdn.masto.host)
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Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is _really_ fighting to curb climate change:

https://eco.kde.org/get-involved

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#ecology #environment #emissions #microsoft

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[-] gencha@lemm.ee 64 points 5 months ago

Climate was only cool while you could buy fake carbon credits to make up lies about responsible computing at scale. Now we save the world with AI once again. Next year, compute on mars, true planetary scale! Cloud? We're doing Starsystem now!

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

Climate was only cool in the 1700's....

[-] minecraftchest1@social.opendesktop.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@gencha
Carbon credits weren't, and are not fake
They just never did anything.

[-] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

That sounds valid. I was thinking about the fact that most carbon credits are generated from deforestation reduction projects that renew yearly.

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