Matt Day
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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sure thing.
Happy to.
So this this isn't an enormous load if you're if you don't have a giant oil extractor or something like that.
But we're a tech company, it's pretty big.
It's about twenty million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Uh it's up twenty five percent from a year earlier.
Um and a lot of this is the result of the AI data center building them.
So there was there's a big push uh in the US about a decade ago to push um big technology companies to proactively disclose some of this.
You know, there are some disclosures that are required by governments, but most of this is voluntary.
Um so what Microsoft and it the rest of its big fears in the industry have seen uh in the last few years, particularly as they chase all this AI investment.
Um is that that leads to bigger buildings they gotta build, it leads to more chips they gotta put into them, leads to concrete, steel, all the things that put together a big old uh data center style warehouse somewhere in the suburbs and that means more carbon emissions, means more electricity use, all the all the things these companies um committed to reducing and at some point eliminating, um the numbers are going the wrong direction.
Yeah, it truly looks like it's making their goals more difficult.
You know, Microsoft has said they hope to, by twenty thirty, be taking more carbon out of the atmosphere than they put in.
That task has gotten harder in the last few years.
So, you know, they're they're talking about efficiency the way they have uh for years and years.
They're talking about underwriting green energy projects, uh solar farms, wind power, that sort of thing, talking about new technology to capture and sequester carbon.
Um so there's a lot kinda on the menu, but it's it's unclear uh in what kind of shape they're gonna be to hit their goals.
It's a real open question.
I mean, I don't think anybody's called the end of this.
Uh we're about to go into tech earnings season.
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