{
  "id": 2602,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-emissions-25-percent-ai-data-centres",
  "title": "Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": "microsoft",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-14T14:00:24.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2602",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-emissions-25-percent-ai-data-centres",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}