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Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals

One of the world’s most profitable technology companies could be abandoning an ambitious clean-energy goal in Virginia as it races to build electricity-hungry data centers. Several of the company’s facilities are already operating in Virginia, the data center capital of the world

Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals
Inside Climate News — 15 June 2026
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One of the world’s most profitable technology companies could be abandoning an ambitious clean-energy goal in Virginia as it races to build electricity-hungry data centers. Several of the company’s facilities are already operating in Virginia, the data center capital of the world, and more are planned, creating a tension with the state’s own climate commitments.  […]

This report comes from Inside Climate News. The story centres on Microsoft’s Clean Energy Reversal Collides with Virginia’s Climate Goals. Full coverage and background context is available at the original source. Readers seeking more detail on this developing topic are encouraged to follow updates from Inside Climate News and related outlets covering this beat.

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