Text from screenshot:

2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft’s emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

Article
Original post

so-true Corporations will go green on public pressure. yea

  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    We will achieve this through a portfolio of negative emission technologies (NET) potentially including afforestation and reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs), and direct air capture (DAC).

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago
        • afforestation and reforestation - growing trees where there weren’t trees before (afforestation).and regrowing trees (reforestation)
        • soil carbon sequestration - changing farming methods to store carbon, theoretically over the long term (doubt)
        • bioenergy with carbon capture and storage - grow stuff, burn it and store the carbon
        • direct air capture - extract and store carbon directly from the atmosphere using chemical or physical methods