In 2020, Microsoft said it would be carbon-negative by 2030 and offset all historical emissions by 2050. Fast-forward to 2025: AI is the main objective of tech firms and a U.S. growth engine. Microsoft has planned to invest $80 billion in data centers over 2025, apart from other AI-related investments. AI needs data, data needs data centers, and data centers need electricity—a lot of it (not to mention water). UNEP notes:
“The International Energy Agency estimates that data centres will drive more than 20 per cent of the growth in electricity demand between now and 2030. The global demand from data centres is set to more than double over the next five years, consuming as much electricity by 2030 as Japan does today, according to estimates. Data centres and data transmission networks were responsible for 1 per cent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, experts say.”
It is hardly surprising then that Bill Gates wants to shift the focus of the environmental agenda.
It’s so sad that this cunt so desperately needs to maintain his image as the nerd who did computers in his garage.
Remember when Gates was a crucial player in the argument for NOT waiving copyright internationally for the taxpayer funded Covid vaccine as a lifesaving act so other countries could manufacture it and save more lives?
Why are we still listening to this asshole?