{"id":14975,"date":"2024-06-29T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T07:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T07:37:36","slug":"ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london\/","title":{"rendered":"AI drive brings Microsoft\u2019s \u2018green moonshot\u2019 down to earth in west London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm\u2019s bid to remove more CO<sub>2<\/sub> than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/ai-bill-gates-climate-targets-datacentres-energy\">Bill Gates: AI will help rather than hinder climate targets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want evidence of Microsoft\u2019s progress towards its environmental \u201cmoonshot\u201d goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambition is jarring with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030\/\">its target of being carbon negative by 2030.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/jun\/29\/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8662217687dabcd2d03ef4568a81f0e6c6e47bb1\/50_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ce5da951bcbd84387347edb8bd6e0504\" title=\"AI drive brings Microsoft\u2019s \u2018green moonshot\u2019 down to earth in west London\" \/>Tech firm\u2019s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres<br \/>\nBill Gates: AI will help rather than hinder climate targets<br \/>\nIf you want evidence of Microsoft\u2019s progress towards its environmental \u201cmoonshot\u201d goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambition is jarring with its target of being carbon negative by 2030. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm\u2019s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres Bill Gates: AI will help rather than hinder climate targets If you want evidence of Microsoft\u2019s progress towards its environmental \u201cmoonshot\u201d goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/29\/ai-drive-brings-microsofts-green-moonshot-down-to-earth-in-west-london\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI drive brings Microsoft\u2019s \u2018green moonshot\u2019 down to earth in west London<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}