{"id":1007110,"date":"2026-05-07T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007110"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:02:45","slug":"microsoft-may-shelve-2030-clean-energy-target-as-ai-lifts-power-use-bloomberg-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/microsoft-may-shelve-2030-clean-energy-target-as-ai-lifts-power-use-bloomberg-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft may shelve 2030 clean energy target as AI lifts power use: Bloomberg News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The expensive and energy-intensive push for data centers \u200cis reshaping \u2060the feasibility \u2060of Microsoft&#8217;s climate commitments that were made before the \u200bAI era and rank among the industry&#8217;s most ambitious targets, the \u200breport said. <\/p>\n<p>The discussions were ongoing and no final decision has been made, Bloomberg News added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is considering delaying or abandoning its 2030 goal of matching its entire hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The expensive and energy-intensive push for data centers \u200cis reshaping \u2060the feasibility \u2060of Microsoft&#8217;s climate commitments that were made before the \u200bAI era and rank among the industry&#8217;s most ambitious targets, the \u200breport said. The discussions were ongoing and no final decision has been made, Bloomberg News added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007140,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007110\/revisions\/1007140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}