Move over, gas stoves. There’s a new household item that’s been thrust into the culture war over climate change. That would be the Xbox.
the Young America’s Foundation, a conservative group.: “First gas stoves, then your coffee, now they’re gunning for your Xbox.”And now they want to take your Xbox.On Jan. 11, Xbox said in a blog post it is rolling out a number of updates to improve the energy efficiency of existing consoles in an effort to meet Microsoft’s corporate goal of becoming “carbon negative” by the end of the decade.
And Xbox will automatically update certain older consoles to an energy-saving mode meant to reduce electricity consumption when game time is over. That mode is already the default on newer models. The change comes at a small cost to gamers: It takes about 15 seconds to boot up an Xbox in power-saving mode compared to a “sleep” option from which the machine can instantly be woken up,
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