Amazon's carbon emissions jumped 16% in 2025 as AI data center construction accelerated, raising doubts about the company's 2040 net-zero climate pledge.

Data centres, whose expansion is being fuelled dramatically by the artificial intelligence boom, have a far bigger carbon footprint than previously estimated, a study said Tuesday.

It's more evidence that AI growth is making it harder for tech giants to maintain climate ambition.

Amazon's carbon emissions jumped 16% in 2025 as AI data center construction accelerated, raising doubts about the company's 2040 net-zero climate pledge.