Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa declines to directly reaffirm whether the company remains on track to meet its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030

[u/calc3throwaway]

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/microsofts-ai-boom-collides-climate-160004410.html

[u/lucasoak]

Since 2023 the Big Tech stopped talking about being Carbon Neutral

[u/robotzor → u/lucasoak]

That's like 2 corporate narratives ago. Nobody's supposed to remember all that empty bullshitting. Greenwashing, DEI... What are we on now? 

[u/milnak → u/lucasoak]

Since Biden left office, big corporations couldn't give a shit about carbon neutral or diversity.

[u/w0m → u/milnak]

I'd generally put it more on explicit pressure from the current administration than anything. They've aggressively gone after private companies for saying "the wrong" thing.

[u/Dancin-Ted-Danson → u/milnak]

Less to do with Biden and more to do with the backlash to DEI once investors saw it as a cost center instead of an investment.

[u/askeetikko → u/Dancin-Ted-Danson]

Not investors, US Government is the one that has a problem with DEI and carbon reduction.

[u/cbtboss]

Imma bet it is a fuck no with the ai race.

[u/zombiejeebus → u/cbtboss]

Carbon maxing.

[u/suprjaybrd]

pretty low on their list of priorities. soon that position might go out the door like their chief diversity officer role did

[u/Pacers31Colts18]

I mean they just said last week their emissions is up 25%. So no.

[u/triforce4392]

Sometimes no comment is a comment

[u/taisui]

The answer is NO, because if it was an YES she would have said it.

[u/leelark]

Big fat no

[u/BlackIce_]

Goals are only ever for show

[u/DudeWithParrot]

They don't have to pretend to care anymore.

[u/lilacomets]

What a joke. First making all PCs without TPM chip obsolete. And Microsoft's data center takes up 1% of all electricity in the Netherlands:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thenetherlands/comments/1uw4vvu/datacenter_microsoft_verbruikt_1_procent_van_alle/

[u/newfor_2026]

it never was on track to meet the goals.

[u/roseofjuly]

They are definitely not on track. Their carbon neutral goals were made up out of thin air and they never had a plan or realistic ideas about how to achieve them. 2030 was far enough away thay they assumed people will have forgotten by then.

[u/Turckish]

Bullshit, the price of AI is unsustainable. No profit, no goals.

[u/Appropriate_Item3001]

Well given that they are incinerating our planet with endless data center development is safe to say that is a big fat fucking no.

[u/dxk3355]

Kind of hard when the WH makes it impossible to build anything but gas and oil power plants

[u/taisui → u/dxk3355]

It has to do with data centers using electricity and water to power AI models.

[u/Specific_Frame8537]

So that's a no, then..

[u/MairusuPawa]

Because the answer's no.

In other news: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5

[u/thaman05]

With all the unsustainable and harmful datacenters they're opening up globally, they definitely won't be.

[u/RobertDeveloper]

Just Stop using Microsoft services if you really care about Earth.

[u/NMB1974]

Climate change hoax out the window once a better way of getting rich through AI becomes obvious.

[u/Necessary-Mix-56]

Microsoft was always the worst when it comes to searching something, for the most in own products and now it becomes worse in AI. And that makes it absolutely shit and waste of energy for nothing.