Microsoft's Carbon Emissions Rose 25% in a Year

Microsoft has released its 2026 sustainability report, which reveals that the company is once again failing to meet its stated climate targets. As GeekWire reports, the document shows that Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025, reaching 34 million metric tons “before accounting for certain offsetting measures.”

According to the report, the primary driver of the increase was the expansion of the company's infrastructure. Microsoft does not disclose more detailed reasons for this growth in the portion of the report cited, but the connection to the scaling of the company's capacity is confirmed by the document's own wording.

This is not the first time Microsoft has recorded a deviation from its own climate commitments. The company had previously announced its intention to become carbon negative by 2030, yet its latest figures point in the opposite direction.

Details about exactly which offsetting measures were excluded from the final figure, as well as the company's further plans to correct the situation, are not specified in the summary provided.

Source: The Verge