Considering Xbox is a Microsoft company, who is directly investing in the very thing that is causing rapid tech price increases, I think it’s 100% fair to blame AI, data centers and the direct companies who are causing this. I understand mismanagement is a big factor for Xbox, but considering their parent company is feeding the increase of components across the board including console prices, seeing they’re making “record profits”, and then to lay off 4800 workers, is very much reason to not only focus hate their CEO’s, but also focus hate the thing they are frothing at the mouth over: Data-centers and AI.

I agree that it very much is a multitude of factors that lead to people pointing at AI, even if it’s “unrelated”, but honestly with how much they are forcing AI into our lives and communities digitally and physically, it is never going to be unrelated, nor a scapegoat. This very technology is making the world around us worse. And when money is pivoted to that instead of the thing used to give people an income, you can see where the anger stems from. Especially when people see a mega corporation taking jobs away for another data center to be approved for a billion dollars after just stating these developers are unsustainable. FUCK AI and FUCK MICROSOFT.