News Summary

• Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals.
• The tech company has said that by 2030 it intends to match 100% of its hourly energy use with clean power on the same grid.
• But as data centers grow in size and number, those same companies are turning to natural gas.
• If Microsoft were to abandon its hourly-matching target, the company would also lose some leverage in efforts to sell the public on its data centers.
• Microsoft declined to comment on the internal debate over the hourly matching goal.