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Are Meta’s carbon emissions shrinking? Depends on how you look at it

Untangling Meta’s latest sustainability report.

But it’s important to keep both figures in mind — especially given how difficult it is to suss out how effective market-based mechanisms can really be in eliminating the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change. An economic impact study it conducted last year found that its support for 86 new wind and solar projects across 24 states in the US should add up to 9,800MW of renewable energy to local grids by 2025. “As we want to build more data centers, it’s going to be really important that the electricity grids around us continue to decarbonize,” Urvi Parekh, head of renewable energy at Meta, said in a call with The Verge this week.

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