AI companies should release environmental impact, commit to clean energy, says UN chief

https://apnews.com/article/climate-united-nations-london-guterres-cdba9edbe2081aec15b115d043b5f75c

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/39421726

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magnetosphere@fedia.io · 28 pts · 47d

Yay! Another politician making a non-binding suggestion! We’re saved!

Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 47d

We are going to start hearing about data centers built in poor countries powered exclusively by coal.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 12 pts · 46d

Did this idiot considered what that would do to their profits? How are we supposed get more trillionaires if we keep trying to save the planet?

KingKong33@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 46d (1 reply)

Fucking make them you twat.

dumnezero@piefed.social · 5 pts · 46d

the UN is famously all-bark-no-bite.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 46d

There are lots of things businesses should do but once they've made their money then it's fuck everything, as per usual.

tylersloeper@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 46d

They should. How will the UN make them?