2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30
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More than 96% of Microsoft's emissions are Scope 3 though which is better than most corporations.
Microsoft contracted 1,443,981 metric tons of carbon removal in FY22. They also made first-of-their kind multi-year forward offtake commitments to carbon removal, which could serve as a model for scaling the nascent carbon capture industry.
@GreenFire @akshatrathi And then there's this: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-buy-power-nuclear-fusion-company-helion-2023-05-10/
I didn't have "software megacorproation gets into the nuclear fusion game" on my bingo card, but I guess that's what's up.
Private U.S. nuclear fusion company Helion Energy will provide Microsoft <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/MSFT.O/"target="_blank">(MSFT.O)</a> with electricity in about five years, the companies said on Wednesday, in the first such deal for the power source that fuels the sun but has been elusive on Earth.
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