In 2020, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030. In 2024, Microsoft emissions are up by 30% compared to 2020.

Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30%

The company’s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact.

And are piling billions into building even more datacentres, which will draw Gigawatts of power, in countries without enough clean sustainable power to start with and required for the important things, to build ‘AI clouds’ which will power what I call ‘useless toys’ such as copilot.