{"id":993715,"date":"2026-02-19T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993715"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:46:35","slug":"microsoft-to-keep-buying-enough-renewable-energy-to-match-all-its-electricity-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/microsoft-to-keep-buying-enough-renewable-energy-to-match-all-its-electricity-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has promised to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs after meeting that goal for the first time last year, as tech giants ramp up \u200ccapital expenditure on \u2060an AI-fuelled \u2060expansion of power-hungry data centres. <\/p>\n<p>The company said on Wednesday that it had reached its 2025 goal \u200bby contracting 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy supply, mainly through power purchase agreements &#8211; long-term contracts that \u200bhelp utility providers to bring new projects forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has promised to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs after meeting that goal for the first time last year, as tech giants ramp up \u200ccapital expenditure on \u2060an AI-fuelled \u2060expansion of power-hungry data centres. The company said on Wednesday that it had reached its 2025 goal \u200bby contracting 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy supply, mainly through power purchase agreements &#8211; long-term contracts that \u200bhelp utility providers to bring new projects forward.<\/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-993715","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\/993715","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=993715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}