They asked developers to help them improve windows battery life on laptops, competing against chromebooks and macbooks.

The AI gigawatts are all in data centers.

They never cared for the environment (in this way, at least).

In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving? Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the link to renewable energy.

Anyway, I agree with the notion of the extreme energy-inefficiency of LLMs. The scale of it makes it hard to imagine any less efficient product will ever be invented.