Last week, news broke that Microsoft signed a massive 20 year deal with Chevron to supply a new data center with electricity generated from burning methane gas. This Chevron facility is designed to deliver 2.67GW of electricity – enough power to run nearly 2.3 million homes – and will emit more climate pollution than the entire country of Jamaica.
Unfortunately, Microsoft’s recent deal with Chevron is only a small part of a much larger story of it sacrificing communities and the climate in pursuit of more AI data centers.
While claiming to be a climate leader and a good neighbor, Microsoft is causing all sorts of harm.
Harms to communities like Person County, North Carolina, where a gas plant is being built next to an elementary school to power a 1,350 acre Microsoft data center. Or the town of La Esperanza in Mexico, where water outages attributed to the nearby Microsoft data center led to an outbreak of hepatitis. Or Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, where data center neighbors are subjected to around-the-clock noise and have trouble sleeping.
Send a message to Microsoft now: honor your commitments to communities and the climate.
