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Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals
Microsoft's sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services.
Buying enough clean electricity is actually the easy part — it’s the facilities themselves that are laden with carbon-intensive materials and products, including steel, concrete, and computer chips. “We reflect the challenges the world must overcome to develop and use greener concrete, steel, fuels, and chips,” a Microsoft spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. The steel used in the buildings comes from a supply chain that relies on blast furnaces heated by fossil fuels, and concrete used in the foundation is the product of a chemical reaction that’s both powered by and a producer of carbon dioxide.
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