The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet. Published last week in the journal npj Climate Action, the research finds that
The European Union has put forward proposals that would slow cuts to companies’ greenhouse gas emissions limits, as part of a major overhaul of climate policy. The reforms would relax the rules of the bloc’s emissions trading system (ETS) to give companies more time than previously planned to reduce their carbon output. The changes would
Microsoft’s greenhouse gas pollution increased about 25 percent last year, the company says in its new sustainability report released Thursday. The report follows similar ones published by Google and Amazon last week. Together, they show a worrying trend of rising emissions from technology companies, driven by the global race to build energy-intensive data centers. In