{"id":974068,"date":"2025-11-15T08:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974068"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:12:57","slug":"big-techs-climate-strategists-feeling-strain-of-ai-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/big-techs-climate-strategists-feeling-strain-of-ai-power-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech\u2019s climate strategists feeling strain of AI power needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in November 2022, sustainability executives at Microsoft Corp. realized they had a big problem. <\/p>\n<p>On the tech giant\u2019s 500-acre campus in Redmond, Washington, teams began holding regular \u201ctriage\u201d meetings to confront serious questions posed by the artificial intelligence boom: Where would the company find the gigawatts \u2014 just one gigawatt can power nearly 750,000 US homes \u2014 needed for data centers? And how could Microsoft possibly secure that extra energy while still making progress toward a long-standing goal of going carbon-negative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in November 2022, sustainability executives at Microsoft Corp. realized they had a big problem. On the tech giant\u2019s 500-acre campus in Redmond, Washington, teams began holding regular \u201ctriage\u201d meetings to confront serious questions posed by the artificial intelligence boom: Where would the company find the gigawatts \u2014 just one gigawatt can power nearly 750,000 US homes \u2014 needed for data centers? And how could Microsoft possibly secure that extra energy while still making progress toward a long-standing goal of going carbon-negative?<\/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-974068","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\/974068","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=974068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}