{"id":210907,"date":"2026-05-08T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:05:09","slug":"big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Will Not Save Us From the Climate Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/\">Big Tech Will Not Save Us From the Climate Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/\">https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 09:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techpolicy.press\">www.techpolicy.press<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft may delay or completely abandon its clean energy targets, raising doubts about the sustainability of its &#8220;moonshot&#8221; goal to match 100% of its energy with renewables by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft\u2019s pursuit of building more and larger data centers to support its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities conflicts with its renewable energy commitments.<\/li>\n<li>The company&#8217;s initiatives, though voluntary, seem guided by the whims of its leadership; its credibility weakened by its struggles to meet renewable energy targets and subsequent pausing of carbon removal credits.<\/li>\n<li>The construction of Microsoft\u2019s hyperscale data center in Vineland, South Jersey, has sparked local opposition due to the adverse impacts on community health, including unassessed air pollution and water usage.<\/li>\n<li>The use of unproven technologies, like &#8220;algae based biofilters,&#8221; for pollutant capture has raised community concerns. The same concerns extend to the overall lack of transparency in data center operations and emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Grassroots activism in Vineland reveals how Big Tech engages in greenwashing and misleads communities, using speculative tech as distractions from real environmental impacts.<\/li>\n<li>Despite public opposition and growing concerns about technological and environmental fraud, local government officials backed the data center project, highlighting the influence of corporate interests over community welfare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech Will Not Save Us From the Climate Crisis https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/big-tech-will-not-save-us-from-the-climate-crisis\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 09:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/3tzzh18d\/production\/d2d0357c8e1c600007693b654cddfec22c5b8ab3-1200x675.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-210907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210909,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210907\/revisions\/210909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}