Microsoft's AI Push Puts Its Carbon-Neutral Goal At Risk, Says President Brad Smith
Microsoft's AI Push Puts Its Carbon-Neutral Goal At Risk, Says President Brad Smith
Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) ambitious push into artificial intelligence is jeopardizing its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030, according to President Brad Smith.
總裁布拉德·史密斯表示，微軟公司（納斯達克股票代碼：MSFT）對人工智能的雄心勃勃的推動正在危及其到2030年實現碳負的目標。
What Happened: Microsoft's AI strategy, which has seen a significant expansion since the company's $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019, has led to a substantial increase in the company's emissions, reported Bloomberg.
發生了什麼：彭博社報道，自2019年微軟向OpenAI投資10億美元以來，微軟的人工智能戰略已實現了大幅擴張，導致該公司的排放量大幅增加。
Smith told Zero host Akshat Rathi that the company's total emissions in 2023 were approximately 30% higher than in 2020. This increase is largely attributed to the company's AI investments.
史密斯告訴零號主持人阿克沙特·拉西，該公司2023年的總排放量比2020年增加了約30％。這一增長主要歸因於該公司的人工智能投資。
"In 2020 we unveiled what we called our carbon moonshot. Our goal of being carbon negative by 2030. That was before the explosion in artificial intelligence. So in many ways, as I say, across Microsoft, the moon has moved. It's more than five times as far away as it was in 2020. If you just think about our own forecast for the expansion of AI and its electrical needs," Smith said.
“2020年，我們公佈了我們所謂的碳月球。我們的目標是到 2030 年實現碳負值。那是在人工智能爆炸之前。因此，正如我所說，在微軟各地，月球在許多方面都在移動。距離是2020年的五倍多。如果你考慮一下我們自己對人工智能擴張及其電力需求的預測，” 史密斯說。
"So I think the right way to think about it in the first instance is — call it benefits and costs — or you know, the good that we think AI will do for the world versus the impact on the environment," Smith added.
史密斯補充說：“因此，我認爲首先考慮這個問題的正確方法是——稱之爲收益和成本——或者你知道，我們認爲人工智能將爲世界帶來的好處而不是對環境的影響。”
Microsoft's AI strategy has been instrumental in its rise to becoming the world's most valuable company, with a valuation exceeding $3 trillion. However, this growth has come at a cost to the company's environmental goals.
微軟的人工智能戰略在其成爲全球最有價值的公司方面發揮了重要作用，其估值超過3萬億美元。但是，這種增長是以犧牲公司的環境目標爲代價的。
The company has stated that it remains committed to its environmental goals and is exploring various avenues to achieve them. Smith emphasized the potential positive impact of AI on the world, which he believes will outweigh its environmental impact.
該公司表示，它仍然致力於實現其環境目標，並正在探索實現這些目標的各種途徑。史密斯強調了人工智能對世界的潛在積極影響，他認爲這將超過其對環境的影響。
Why It Matters: Microsoft's AI push has also raised questions about its environmental impact. The company's increasing emissions are a cause for environmental concern, especially given its ambitious carbon-negative goal, according to the report.
爲何重要：微軟對人工智能的推動也引發了人們對其環境影響的質疑。報告稱，該公司排放量的增加引起了環境問題，特別是考慮到其雄心勃勃的碳負目標。
At the recent Build Conference, Microsoft introduced new AI-powered features that have further solidified its position as a leader in the AI space. However, the company's increasing emissions raise questions about the sustainability of its AI strategy.
在最近的構建大會上，微軟推出了人工智能驅動的新功能，進一步鞏固了其作爲人工智能領域領導者的地位。但是，該公司排放量的增加引發了人們對其人工智能戰略可持續性的質疑。
Smith's comments also come in the wake of concerns about Microsoft's AI strategy raised by analysts. According to Gene Munster, Microsoft's future in the AI space is in the hands of OpenAI, and the company is not in control of its AI destiny like Google and Meta.
史密斯的評論也是在分析師對微軟的人工智能戰略表示擔憂之後發表的。根據吉恩·芒斯特的說法，微軟在人工智能領域的未來掌握在OpenAI手中，該公司無法像谷歌和Meta一樣控制其人工智能命運。
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This story was generated using Benzinga Neuro and edited by Kaustubh Bagalkote
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