Microsoft's AI Drive Saw Its Carbon Emissions Grow By 25 Percent In 2025

The company said it wanted to be carbon negative by 2030.

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Microsoft's carbon emissions grew 25 percent year over year in 2025, the company has revealed in its 2026 environmental sustainability report. The report covers the company's 2025 fiscal year and measures its progress against its 2020 baseline. Microsoft says this growth in emissions is mostly caused by the expansion of its investments in AI data center infrastructure.

As GeekWire notes, Microsoft seems to be moving in the opposite direction of where it wants to go in order to achieve its goal. The company announced in 2020 that it plans to be carbon negative, or to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it creates, by 2030. It only has four more years to get there.

"While AI infrastructure is driving demand for energy, water, land, and materials, sustainability solutions are not scaling fast enough...

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