{"id":30055,"date":"2026-05-06T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/30055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:32:41","slug":"microsoft-may-shelve-2030-clean-energy-target-as-ai-lifts-power-use-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/30055\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft may shelve 2030 clean energy target as AI lifts power use, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/microsoft\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Microsoft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Microsoft&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly \u200celectricity use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News \u200creported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The expensive and \u200benergy-intensive push for data centers is reshaping the feasibility of Microsoft&#8217;s climate commitments that were made before the AI era and rank among the industry&#8217;s most ambitious targets, the \u200creport said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The discussions were \u2060ongoing and no final decision has been made, Bloomberg News added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Microsoft did not immediately respond \u2060to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Like rivals Amazon and Alphabet, the Windows maker is spending hundreds of billions of \u200bdollars to \u200bbuild out <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> \u200binfrastructure needed to power \u200cservices such as its Copilot assistant and Azure cloud service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Some of the new data centers tech companies are developing are expected to have multiple gigawatts of capacity. A single gigawatt is enough to roughly power 750,000 U.S. homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200crush to power those data centers \u200bhas sparked a flurry of \u200bdeals, including those for \u200bnuclear energy. It has also boosted demand \u200cfor natural gas, which some \u200bindustry executives have \u200bsaid is faster and easier to deploy than renewables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Microsoft in 2024 agreed a power deal with Constellation \u200bEnergy to help \u200cresurrect a unit of the Three Mile Island \u200bnuclear plant in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Aditya Soni in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,7829,9179,13743,39,320,7828,13060,6058],"class_list":{"0":"post-30055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"tag-azure","9":"tag-azure-ai","10":"tag-bloomberg-news","11":"tag-climate-commitments","12":"tag-data-centers","13":"tag-microsoft","14":"tag-microsoft-ai","15":"tag-nuclear-energy","16":"tag-renewable-energy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}