Aaron Gordon

Dec 5, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria

The big tech companies treat their climate footprint like shoppers with unlimited budgets. Companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft are using more and more energy while using their massive profits to buy clean energy credits to “cancel” it out. This allows for claims that such companies are carbon neutral, even though the companies themselves know this isn’t how emissions from electricity actually work. In reality, there are tradeoffs between electricity consumption and climate impact.