{"id":985592,"date":"2026-01-16T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985592"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:18:59","slug":"microsoft-in-record-deal-for-soil-carbon-credits-as-data-centres-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/microsoft-in-record-deal-for-soil-carbon-credits-as-data-centres-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in record deal for soil carbon credits as data centres surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has agreed with Indigo Carbon to buy a record 2.85 million soil \u200dcarbon credits linked to regenerative agriculture in the United States, as the tech giant aims to become &#8220;carbon \u2060negative&#8221; by 2030 despite surging emissions linked to AI. <\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest buyer of carbon removal credits &#8211; did not disclose the cost of the 12-year tie-up, a person with knowledge of the deal said \u200cit falls within \u200cthe historic range of $60 to $80 a ton for Indigo Carbon&#8217;s credits, which would value the deal at between $171 million and $228 \u200cmillion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has agreed with Indigo Carbon to buy a record 2.85 million soil \u200dcarbon credits linked to regenerative agriculture in the United States, as the tech giant aims to become &#8220;carbon \u2060negative&#8221; by 2030 despite surging emissions linked to AI. While Microsoft &#8211; the world&#8217;s biggest buyer of carbon removal credits &#8211; did not disclose the cost of the 12-year tie-up, a person with knowledge of the deal said \u200cit falls within \u200cthe historic range of $60 to $80 a ton for Indigo Carbon&#8217;s credits, which would value the deal at between $171 million and $228 \u200cmillion.<\/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-985592","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\/985592","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=985592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}