How AI forced Salesforce to reset its 2030 climate goals

Like many fast-growing companies betting on artificial intelligence, Salesforce is pacing far behind its climate action plan. 

The $38 billion enterprise software business said in 2021 that it would halve absolute emissions by 2030. Four years later, the company can point to solid progress on cutting emissions from electricity use. But those gains have been entirely canceled out by emissions growth elsewhere, including in the data centers that power its AI products.

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