Amazon's carbon emissions jumped 16% in 2025. The driver: massive data center buildout ^49.4%

KUOW Public Radio - By Monica Nickelsburg, Stephen Howie - 7/1/2026, 11:05 PM

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Amazon's latest sustainability report shows that carbon emissions from the online retail giant jumped by 16% in 2025, driven in large part by its multi-billion dollar data center buildout. Amazon has pledged to have net zero emissions by 2040, but the data center requirements of artificial intelligence have raised questions about the... more