At least they're using units that we (the world) can recognize, and not something like tera-bald-eagles-power or something based on body parts of a random dude.

There are no downsides!

It all depends on the energy source.
If it's clean energy (or at least significantly cleaner than burning aviation fuel), no problem if more energy will be used, less pollution will happen.
Even if the goal is not less emissions but prettier bottom line, I'm still all for it.

You forgot to mention that over the top of the already steaming POS games they'll add a nice cover of AI slop.
And yet another round of mass layoffs.

IRL cartels have means of "discourage" those who cheats of repeating the deed.

More like mad cow disease.

Shaking seats, loud sirens, maybe even a little water spray?

Yes, it probably can be done without AI/LLM, but it'd take a long time and resources to develop the solution.
The thing with AI is it's easy, fast and accessible to use, often you don't need to know how to code, often it's cheaper.
Just ask it in natural language and it does it, of course with comes with varying levels of quality, but sometimes it's acceptable.
It can be more expensive to run it (maybe it needs a high-spec smartphone), but for this specific application, if the results comes in a minute it's totally fine, no need to be instantaneous and run in a arduino.

Glad to help.
I just discovered it myself last week.

Do yourself a favor and get over it.
Times they are a changin' - apps, applications and programs are synonyms nowadays. Those things that runs on iStuff are nothing but programs, a.k.a. apps.
Say "programs" or even "applications", and newer (and older!) generations will scratch their heads; say apps and they'll get it.

Yes, gaming is what is mostly holding me on Windows (10 as long as I have security updates, 11 is malware).
People saying it's fine... well it improved a lot, but it's not great. Specially with games with anticheat and it really fails big time if you have a NVidia GPU (my case).
There are recent news that Steam itself is taking action and "working with NVidia in order to improve compatibility", whatever that means... let's hope for the best, but I'll not hold my breath.

Try Gradia and tell us what you think.

Gradia.

Windows 10 has being slowly enshittified, but Windows 11 is a turd on fire since the beginning.
So even being a die hard Windows user, I'm very tempted in switching to Linux.
But there are some reasons that stops me. Many games I play that can't run on Linux. And I have a NVidia GPU (RTX 3060), which has poor support on Linux (AFAIK).
Another reason is analysis paralysis. I just can't make my mind on what distro I get. See, people here on /. and some other places says things like Wayland sucks, SystemD is cancer, Gnome is bloat, Flatpack bad, etc. At the same time, distro X is amazing, distro Y is perfect, distro Z is sexy, etc. And often these same distros has all that bad stuff you Linux nerds despise.
And there's Valve and their SteamOS. Valve recently opened it for anyone to use, but it's mainly compatible with AMD GPUs. but Valve says they're working with NVidia to "improve compatibility", but that'd not happen until 2027.
So, Windows 10 extended support for one more year did fit like a glove. It bought me time to wait and let Valve cook. Fingers crossed!

If they release a Windows 10 Classic Zero Ads, I'd be really interested.