Microsoft’s expanding AI data centres are making its environmental targets harder to hit
- Microsoft told employees that surging AI demand is making some earlier environmental commitments harder to meet.
- The concerns centre on rising data-centre use of electricity and water, along with higher carbon emissions and impacts on local communities.
- Microsoft said it is working on efficiency upgrades to reduce the environmental impact of its expanding data-centre network.
- The company still aims to become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, despite the pressure from AI growth.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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