Microsoft's carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MOREMicrosoft’s Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. (Microsoft Photo)In 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious commitment to make its operations carbon negative within a decade, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits each year. But four years in, the carbon footprint for the cloud ...