aceDatacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year, driven largely by datacentre construction. In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted 119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent), or about a third of those of France. The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e, roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia. The US companies’ climate ambitions have been hit in recent years by a boom in demand for…
Building and expanding AI datacentres increased collective carbon emissions of Microsoft, Amazon and Google by nearly a fifth to 119m mTCO2e in FY ending March 2026.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-07-11
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0296, v1: “Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France.” Truvace, 2026-07-20. /record/TRV-2026-0296 (accessed at citation time). sha256 b5b55238a094acb0…
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