They were driven to it. It’s negatively affecting economy’s and wildlife. It’s been a disaster and a excuse to implement orwellian politics to make themselves the ruling class and everyone else the underclass. But they need power for AI.
They’re plans are still there though as Microsoft is one of the tools like Google, like Face Book they use for mass surveillance maybe fearing the people are having enough of them too. As is FB is going back years on posts to silence people by using their social called policies they never display those policies or compare or even show someone even made a post or that post how it’s relevant. They never have to prove something isn’t accurate or even show the original post. As karma goes they’ll make AI robots to replace them.