{"id":1032232,"date":"2026-08-31T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032232"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:12:46","slug":"microsoft-sends-memo-to-employees-on-data-centers-admits-ai-making-it-tough-to-meet-some-prior-environmental-commitments-but-adds-stop-worrying-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/microsoft-sends-memo-to-employees-on-data-centers-admits-ai-making-it-tough-to-meet-some-prior-environmental-commitments-but-adds-stop-worrying-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sends memo to employees on Data Centers; admits AI making it tough to meet some prior &#8216;environmental commitments&#8217;, but adds stop worrying as &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is taking steps to reassure its workforce about the broader societal and environmental value of its computing infrastructure, even as artificial intelligence (AI) expansion complicates long-term climate targets. Citing an internal communication, Bloomberg says that Cloud Operations and Innovation head Noelle Walsh addressed growing staff inquiries regarding power consumption, water demands, carbon output and the direct footprints that these massive server campuses leave on nearby neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh acknowledged that escalating AI workloads have made hitting earlier greenhouse gas reduction pledges considerably harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is taking steps to reassure its workforce about the broader societal and environmental value of its computing infrastructure, even as artificial intelligence (AI) expansion complicates long-term climate targets. Citing an internal communication, Bloomberg says that Cloud Operations and Innovation head Noelle Walsh addressed growing staff inquiries regarding power consumption, water demands, carbon output and the direct footprints that these massive server campuses leave on nearby neighbourhoods. Walsh acknowledged that escalating AI workloads have made hitting earlier greenhouse gas reduction pledges considerably harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032232","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032233,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032232\/revisions\/1032233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}