(Bloomberg) — The greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google spiked in 2025, pointing to a growing problem for the hyperscalers: reconciling their climate goals with the massive amount of energy required to power AI, much of it still generated from fossil fuels.
Amazon and Google's greenhouse gas emissions also jumped significantly in 2025, highlighting the growing problem facing big tech companies as they struggle to reconcile their climate goals with the vast energy demands of artificial intelligence, which still rely largely on fossil fuels, Bloomberg reports.