Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […] This story continues at The Next Web
Record details
Published: 14 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
Related evidence
These records share source-supplied organisations, an exact publisher byline, automatic topics or regions. The reason is shown on every link; related does not mean supporting, agreeing with or verifying this record.
Microsoft carbon emissions rose 25 percent in 2025 as AI data centers grow
The Hill Technology · 13 July 2026
Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
The Guardian · 11 July 2026
Microsoft set to invest $60M in Energy Department’s Genesis Mission
The Hill Technology · 22 July 2026
Consommation des datacenters : de très grandes disparités chez Microsoft
Next (FR, ex-INpact) · 23 July 2026
Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.
The Next Web AI · 27 July 2026
'Certighost' Flaw Haunts Microsoft Active Directory Certificates
Dark Reading (AI security) · 28 July 2026
How to cite this record
ethics.ai (14 July 2026), “Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%,” evidence record 2602, https://ethics.ai/record/2602 (originally published by The Next Web AI).
Use and limitations
This page is a stable index and citation surface for a source record. ethics.ai did not author the underlying report and has not independently verified every claim. Automatic topics may be imperfect. For consequential use, quote and cite the original publisher.