Microsoft
Microsoft makes Copilot and is OpenAI's largest backer and cloud provider.
2 stories: 1 on environment, 1 on broken promises.
Microsoft plants wetlands and prairie at 20-plus data centers as emissions rise 27%
Microsoft says it has restored habitat at more than 20 data center sites while its own figures show emissions up 27% in a year, to 21.1 million metric tons.
Microsoft's emissions rose 27% in a year, and it stopped claiming carbon neutrality
Microsoft's own fact sheet shows total emissions up 26.5% in fiscal 2025 and 62% above its 2020 baseline, as it drops its carbon-neutral claim.