TECH - Microsoft's AI Push Puts Its Carbon-Neutral Goal At Risk Says President Brad Smith | Benzinga
Microsoft Corp‘s (NASDAQ:MSFT) ambitious push into artificial intelligence is jeopardizing its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030, according to President Brad Smith.
What Happened: Microsoft’s AI strategy, which has seen a significant expansion since the company’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019, has led to a substantial increase in the company’s emissions, reported Bloomberg.
Smith told Zero host Akshat Rathi that the company’s total emissions in 2023 were approximately 30% higher than in 2020. This increase is largely attributed to the company’s AI investments.
“In 2020 we unveiled what we called our carbon moonshot. Our goal of being carbon negative by 2030. That was before the explosion in artificial intelligence. So in many ways, as I say, across Microsoft, the moon has moved. It's more than five times as far away as it was in ...