Could Microsoft's off-grid data center project undermine climate goals? ^60.4%

KUOW Public Radio - By Monica Nickelsburg - 3/19/2026, 7:26 PM

Microsoft’s plan to lease an off-grid, gas-powered data center is raising questions about the company’s carbon footprint. This week, the Redmond-based software giant signed a letter of intent to use up to 1.35GW of artificial intelligence computing capacity at the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia. Microsoft is leasing part of the... more