Climate Change
Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals
Amid a data center boom in the state, the tech giant backpedals on a key climate promise.
One of the world’s most profitable technology companies could be abandoning an ambitious clean-energy goal in Virginia as it races to build electricity-hungry data centers. Several of the company’s facilities are already operating in Virginia, the data center capital of the world, and more are planned, creating a tension with the state’s own climate commitments.
Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals