Microsoft’s carbon footprint has grown 23.4% since the software and cloud giant set a goal in 2020 to shrink its climate emissions to zero within a decade. But while that sizeable increase is ...

New data center builds have contributed to a 23.4 percent increase in Microsoft's carbon emissions since 2020, according to ...

In 2020, the tech giant set itself a target of drastically cutting its emissions by the end of the decade. With five years to go, the pressure is mounting.

According to Microsoft, the growth of its carbon footprint has therefore come not ... whether they actually increase the amount of renewable energy being built. (See this FT deep dive on the ...

Tucked beside a northern Virginia suburb, an experiment is underway to see if one of the oldest building materials on the planet can help Microsoft meet its ambitious ... to significantly reduce the ...

which will increase the volume of removals to lower the tech giant’s carbon footprint. The revised agreement now aims to remove 5.08 million metric tons of carbon dioxide produced by Microsoft ...

Other tech companies’ emissions are rising, too. However, Microsoft and other AI leaders insist that the increase is because of the carbon-intensive materials used to build data centers ...

Microsoft urgently needs to lower its carbon footprint because its AI push is bringing emissions to new records. The company reported a 30% increase in emissions since 2020—and it is not the ...