The credibility of climate pledges by the world’s tech giants to rapidly become carbon neutral is fading fast as they devour more and more energy in the race to develop AI and build data centres, researchers warned Thursday.
Apple, Google and Meta said they would stop adding CO2 into the atmosphere by 2030, while Amazon set that target for 2040.
Microsoft promised to be “net negative” — pulling CO2 out of the air — by the end of this decade.
But those vows, made before the AI boom transformed the sector, are starting to look like a fantasy even as…