By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2026-10-28 14:15:00
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Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030
Trillium Asset Management wants Microsoft to explain how it will meet its 2030 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets, and is backing a shareholder proposal to request this information at the firm’s next shareholder meeting.
The cloud and software biz set itself lofty environmental goals back in 2020, aiming to be become “carbon-negative” by 2030, and to have removed the equivalent of all the carbon it has ever emitted by 2050.
But since the start of the decade, an explosion in AI development and demand for ever more complex models has seen a boom in demand for high-performance compute infrastructure and a construction wave to deliver new datacenters to house it all in.
Microsoft is one…
