{
  "id": 1599,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/microsoft-amazon-google-datacentre-carbon-emissions-france",
  "title": "Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France",
  "summary": "Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction. In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), or about a third of those of France. Continue reading...",
  "authors": "Aisha Down and Dan Milmo",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": "google,microsoft,amazon",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-11T11:00:49.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1599",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/microsoft-amazon-google-datacentre-carbon-emissions-france",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}