Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart.

Microsoft, why so quiet about your climate goals?|

Dear CEO Satya Nadella, Vice Chair Brad Smith, and CSO Melanie Nakagawa,

Communities are watching, you’re making deals with Chevron, and we still haven’t seen your latest “sustainability” plan. Why so quiet about your climate goals? Why are you hiding the real pollution and water use from each of your data centers?

Communities from across North America are facing more pollution, higher utility bills, and an increasingly unlivable climate – all exacerbated by your data center buildout. Now, your credibility as a climate leader and as a community partner is in danger of being gone for good.

You committed to be a climate leader, removing more carbon than you emitted and delivering around-the-clock clean energy, yet your company is increasingly using fossil fuels to power data centers, and has brought pollution, noise, rampant water use, and waste to local communities. Your company is selling AI and cloud services to oil and gas companies to increase fossil fuel production despite clear scientific warnings that existing oil reserves already exceed safe climate limits.

And now you may abandon your pledge to the planet in order to build more data centers as rapidly as possible, whatever the cost.

As you prepare to release your sustainability report, we are writing to urge you to recommit to clean energy, transparency, community health, affordability, and environmental responsibility. Microsoft used to be a leader in developing clean, renewable energy to power its facilities, setting clear and meaningful environmental and climate pollution goals, and investing in durable carbon dioxide removal.

If you kill your commitment to clean energy, communities won't trust you again.

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