https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=35844 Microsoft is reallocating generative AI costs onto users by raising subscription prices, introducing ad supported variants, cancelling some data centre leases, and requiring Copilot integration in Microsoft 365, while pushing inference to user devices (edge computing). This strategy reduces provider data centre expenditures but shifts hardware, energy, upgrade and e waste burdens to consumers, raising concerns about digital inequality, privacy trade offs, environmental externalities, and potential concentration of hardware control. en-us Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:01:03 +0530 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:01:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=35844 Microsoft is reallocating generative AI costs onto users by raising subscription prices, introducing ad supported variants, cancelling some data centre leases, and requiring Copilot integration in Microsoft 365, while pushing inference to user devices (edge computing). This strategy reduces provider data centre expenditures but shifts hardware, energy, upgrade and e waste burdens to consumers, raising concerns about digital inequality, privacy trade offs, environmental externalities, and potential concentration of hardware control. News - Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:01:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=35844