https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/23/microsoft-xbox-carbon-neutral-climate-change/
They are starting a lot of other initiatives - details here:
Good to see the console manufacturers doing moves here.
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Microsoft announces plan to make the Xbox carbon neutral
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https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/23/microsoft-xbox-carbon-neutral-climate-change/
They are starting a lot of other initiatives - details here:
Good to see the console manufacturers doing moves here.
It's a crazy world when our government is so inept right now that big ass corporations take the lead on climate change.
Hopefully if enough progress like this keeps happening it can help make a difference. Bravo to any company trying to do their part. This is the kind of "war" that I'm for.
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They are already doing their part by not selling any consoles in Asia and huge swathes of Europe. Good on them.
It's good for business that is listening to consumers. Gains better trust and confidence in a brand.
True. Also, a lot of smart people work at these companies compared to the current admin. So these big companies are like "uh... guys, we should probably do something about this even if 1/3rd of the country has been duped into voting against it."
Cue Nintendo setting fire to a giant pile of tyres outside NCL headquarters. The words on-line and on-fire seemingly lost in translation.
On topic this is all good, but yeah. Oil companies run marketing claiming how they are keeping the planet safe. These steps from MS and Sony feel similar to me.
On topic this is all good, but yeah. Oil companies run marketing claiming how they are keeping the planet safe. These steps from MS and Sony feel similar to me.
Yup, won't quote the moronic original post, but it never takes long for the inept comics to make themselves known.
Good on MS and good on Sony too!
Who cares about the climate anyway? All I care about is coming up with good bait and awesome zingers!
This. The internet doesn't run on rainbows and sunshine. Streaming and cloud services even less so.
I'd like to see some details on how this is being implemented. Is Microsoft just buying "carbon credits" to make up for its emissions in producing these Xboxes?
Both Azure and Google Cloud Services are carbon offset. AWS is not 100% carbon offset
Well... I would be really surprised if it was anything else.
So, switching their data canters power sources to nuclear energy?
When can we have a household nuclear reactor?
When can we have a household nuclear reactor?
I assume that the exact extent of the claim, yeah : the production of these pilot consoles will be carbon offset.
Keep in mind these corporations (at least in part) do these things because the positive PR and the marketing they get from it. It's all part of that decision calculus.
The end result is fantastic nonetheless, at least from where we're concerned. The ESA E3 leak docs was pretty telling.
its resetera, Microsoft could give away scarlett and someone would find an issue with it.
This is all timed for events at the UN today. There's 20 companies signed up to this initiative, including Sony and MS. So really they're announcing them together, but they just put up their blogs at different time.
This is (obviously) not a case of one company racing to publish a reaction piece to the other, or whatever.
In the other thread I posted a link covering the general initiative, including MS's plans.
Oh I see.
Any green new initiatives are good in my book.
Would be rather amusing though if Sony and ms kept on trying to 1up each other by being the more green.
Cool stuff. I wonder what Twitter says...
LOL, that was some good bait.
LOL, that was some good bait.
