Microsoft says [1] they're going to be carbon negative by 2030. Hard to see them doing that while deploying gigawatts of new fossil fuels.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sus...

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ecshafer a day ago | parent | next [-]

Its easy, they are going to use fancy accounting to make it come true. Produce a ton of carbon, then buy a cheap, under-priced carbon credit to make it be a zero.

	▲	speed_spread a day ago \| parent [-]
		Or they'll use the greenhouse potential difference between released unburned methane and CO2 to greenwash the project.

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ray_v a day ago | parent | prev [-]

it's easy ... they'll just change the definition of "carbon negative"!