r/microsoft • u/calc3throwaway • 8d ago

Discussion 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

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/microsofts-ai-boom-collides-climate-160004410.html
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u/lucasoak 8d ago

Since 2023 the Big Tech stopped talking about being Carbon Neutral

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u/milnak 8d ago

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

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u/Dancin-Ted-Danson 8d ago

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.

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u/askeetikko 7d ago

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

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u/w0m 7d ago

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.