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.

Google's 2025 Environmental Report shows a 51% emissions increase since 2019 and 27% jump in data center electricity use, driven by AI workloads like

Company admits demand could impact progress to net-zero by 2040