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"#Microsoft has…effectively abandoned data center expansion equivalent to over 14% of its current capacity.

In plain English, Microsoft, which arguably has more data than anybody else about the health of the #generativeAI industry and its potential for growth, has decided that it needs to dramatically #slowdown its expansion. Expansion which, to hammer the point home, is absolutely necessary for generative AI to continue evolving and expanding."

wheresyoured.at/power-cut/

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · Power CutA week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed Statement[s] of Qualifications (SQQs)," which it added

"Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI"

The not so hidden costs of the so-called AI. This is your contribution every single time you use Copilot, ChatGPT and all that crap, and if you do really believe the "...with carbon capture technology..." part, at best, you're naive.

theregister.com/2025/03/13/mic

#LLMs #Microsoft #AI #datacenters
#environment #energy #sustainability

The Register · Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AIBy Dan Robinson
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Next I'm considering dropping my #Microsoft Office sub in favour of #LibreOffice. I just need to be sure that compatibility is good enough for work documents (initial testing is good) and/or that I have some alternative workflows for certain tasks that are as good as, if not better than current.