Enabled Emissions by AI
AWS and Microsoft help oil and gas companies with AI services to extract more oil and gas, which is at odds with being/becoming carbon neutral (Cloud Computing Sustainability).
AWS
- Customers: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Aramco, …
- Estimated revenue from oil and gas companies: USD 9.6 billion annually from 2025 (equivalent to 10% of AWS revenue)
Source: Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (Oktober 2024). https://www.amazonclimatejustice.org/unsustainability-report.pdf
Microsoft
- Customers: Schlumberger, Chevron, Halliburton, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, Shell, …
- Estimated turnover with oil and gas companies: 35 - 75 billion US dollars per year possible in the coming years
Source: The Atlantic (September 2024). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/microsoft-ai-oil-contracts/679804/
Google announced in 2020 that it will no longer develop customized AI tools for fossil fuel extraction.
Source: CNBC