AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuelsAI-driven data center expansion is derailing Big Tech’s climate goals. Despite record renewable purchases, emissions at companies like Goog...
27 Mar, 2026, 09.32 PM IST
Meeting surging demand for AI memory chips has a climate costWhile companies are investing in emission reduction, rapid growth poses a challenge.
23 Mar, 2026, 10.11 AM IST
Microsoft in record deal for soil carbon credits as data centres surgeWhile Microsoft - the world's biggest buyer of carbon removal credits - did not disclose the cost of the 12-year tie-up, a person with know...
15 Jan, 2026, 10.46 AM IST
Tech giants' net zero goals verging on fantasy: ResearchersThe deep-dive analysis found the overall integrity of the climate strategies at Meta, Microsoft and Amazon to be "poor", while Apple's and ...
26 Jun, 2025, 11.12 AM IST
Why Microsoft just signed a deal for green cementMicrosoft is partnering with Sublime Systems to purchase low-carbon cement and reduce its indirect emissions, aiming for carbon negativity ...
22 May, 2025, 06.22 PM IST
AI surge to double data centre electricity demand by 2030: IEAElectricity consumption by data centres will more than double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence applications that will create new ...
10 Apr, 2025, 12.35 PM IST
EDP Renewables signs virtual power purchase agreement with MicrosoftBig Tech firms have devoted tens of billions of dollars to AI data center development over the past year, while actively seeking cleaner en...
10 Feb, 2025, 09.24 PM IST
Global Inc comes shopping for farm fresh green credGlobal companies like Microsoft, HSBC, JP Morgan, and Amazon are buying carbon credits from Indian farmers to offset their emissions. Agric...
18 Sep, 2024, 05.00 AM IST
Global data centre industry to emit 2.5 billion tons of CO2 through 2030: Morgan StanleyA surge in data centers is projected to generate around 2.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions globally by the end ...
04 Sep, 2024, 09.23 AM IST
Microsoft seals carbon capture deal with OccidentalTech giant Microsoft on Tuesday inked a record carbon capture agreement with Occidental Petroleum subsidiary 1PointFive, as major technolog...
10 Jul, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
Modi-Bill Gates meeting: Idea of a green gross domestic product discussedPM Modi underlined the need to shift the current perspective on progress, noting that traditional markers like steel consumption and energy...
29 Mar, 2024, 01.41 PM IST
Climate summit COP28 embraces AI, with reservationsEntrepreneurs and researchers have dazzled attendees with predictions that the fast-improving technology could accelerate the world's effor...
04 Dec, 2023, 08.16 AM IST
Amazon makes first investment in direct air capture climate technologyAmazon will purchase the credits from the 1PointFive direct air capture (DAC) plant in Texas, which is being developed by oil company Occid...
12 Sep, 2023, 02.46 PM IST
Big demand for sustainability suite, says TCS“There is a lot of corporate board-level focus on sustainability. So, people are really looking at how they can grow their business sustain...
11 Feb, 2022, 10.36 AM IST
U.S. airlines and Amazon join push to reduce aircraft emissionsThe Environmental Defense Fund and the Rocky Mountain Institute launched the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) in April with comp...
10 Nov, 2021, 12.05 PM IST
- Cloud tech can cut power usage, carbon emiss by 30%: Microsoft
Businesses can save upto 30 per cent in power cost and carbon emission by moving to the internet based-cloud technology, a Microsoft study ...
10 Nov, 2010, 11.47 AM IST
'Car IT will be adapted soon in India'MS Auto, sees a role for itself in the auto industry's green movement focusing on sustainability, controlling emissions and the move toward...
26 Dec, 2009, 05.18 AM IST