08/15/2026
h/t Bob Egbert
"xAI scores just 6 out of 100 on Climate Power's clean energy tracker, nearly 10 times dirtier than the next-worst AI firm, Oracle.
Amazon tops the “cleanest” ranking at 68 points, even as it builds a Texas gas plant projected to become the single biggest source of power-related emissions in the U.S.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google together emitted 19 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent last year, roughly as much as a third of France.
"Big Tech companies are quietly moving farther and farther away from their decarbonization goals. Back in 2019, Amazon pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040, thereby setting a goalpost ten years ahead of the Paris climate agreement in a show of dedication to becoming a leader in decarbonization. The next year, in 2020, Google and Microsoft upped the ante when each pledged to become carbon-free by 2030. Now, just six years later, those companies are heading in the opposite direction, seeing their emissions balloon by double-digit increments thanks to hyperscaling of energy-hungry data centers to power their artificial intelligence ambitions."
xAI ranks as the dirtiest AI firm on a new emissions tracker, while Amazon, Microsoft and Google's data centers emit as much as a third of France.
