Microsoft's carbon footprint has grown 23.4% since it set a goal in 2020 to shrink its climate emissions to zero within a ...

New data center builds have contributed to a 23.4 percent increase in Microsoft's carbon emissions since 2020, according to the company's 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report.

According to the International Energy Agency, the carbon emissions attributable to energy used by data centres are surging as ...

Microsoft’s new sustainability report, released late last week, shows how a carbon-heavy economy can weigh on a company that ...

and Microsoft leading the way. However, this growth has come at a cost to the environment, as the carbon footprint of these companies continues to increase. The energy required to power the ...

Microsoft is expanding its data center capacity in Switzerland.

Like all of its peers in the tech industry, Microsoft has a carbon pollution problem ... Microsoft's most recent sustainability report showed a 21.5% increase in emissions from 2020 to 2021.

The report attributed this rise to a 30.9% increase in the company’s indirect Scope 3 emissions, generated in part by Microsoft’s efforts to expand its global datacentre footprint. As ...

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 ...

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 ...