• Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News reported.
  • The expensive and energy-intensive push for data centers is reshaping the feasibility of Microsoft’s climate commitments, which rank among the industry’s most ambitious.
  • Discussions are ongoing and no final decision has been made; Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  • Microsoft is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure, including data centers with multiple gigawatts of capacity.
  • The rush to power those data centers has sparked deals for nuclear energy and natural gas, which is faster and easier to deploy than renewables.
  • Microsoft in 2024 agreed a deal with Constellation Energy to help resurrect a unit of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.

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