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Microsoft made the biggest renewable energy agreement ever to fuel its AI ambitions
It’s the largest renewable energy deal to date for a single company.
Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals. This is quite literally a very big deal — effectively the largest corporate agreement to purchase renewable energy to date, according to BloombergNEF. AI is notoriously energy-intensive, which risks pushing the company’s greenhouse gas emissions up as its data centers gobble up more and more electricity.
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