Microsoft's carbon footprint has grown 23.4% since it set a goal in 2020 to shrink its climate emissions to zero within a ...

In 2020, the tech giant set itself a target of drastically cutting its emissions by the end of the decade. With five years to go, the pressure is mounting.

“A lot of people do life cycle assessments after the fact,” to understand a datacenter’s environmental impact after it’s built, said Husam Alissa, director of systems technology in Cloud Operations ...