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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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ecshafertoday at 4:22 PM

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.

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ray_vtoday at 4:27 PM

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