Microsoft's AI obsession is destroying the company's climate goals

Technology giant Microsoft recently released its sustainability report for the 2023 financial year, and it didn't exactly have positive numbers. Microsoft set a climate goal in 2020 to become carbon negative by 2030, sequestering more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits, but the company seems to be on the wrong track to achieve this goal. Microsoft's greenhouse gas emissions increased by 30 percent in the 2023 financial year -- and it's all Copilot's fault. The big culprit is the company's huge AI investments. It takes huge amounts of energy to train and use AI models.