Microsoft Achieves 100% Renewable Energy, Invests $50B in AI

Microsoft has achieved its 2025 goal of matching 100% of its electricity needs with renewable energy, contracting 40 gigawatts of new supply. The company plans to maintain this target through 2030, aiming to become carbon negative, with carbon-free sources like nuclear power playing a larger role, as evidenced by a deal with Constellation Energy to restart a nuclear plant in United States===Pennsylvania. Concurrently, Microsoft is on pace to invest $50 billion by 2030 to expand AI capabilities and cloud data centers globally, focusing on the 'Global South'. The Irish government's decision to lift a moratorium on data center grid connections will allow Microsoft to proceed with stalled data center proposals in Ireland===Dublin, addressing significant demand in the tech-rich country, where data centers accounted for 22% of Ireland's power consumption in 2024.