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Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions are increasing.

It saw a 6 percent rise in planet-heating pollution last year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. As it expands data centers for AI, Amazon is moving further away from a goal it set in 2019 to reach net zero carbon emissions.

“One of the biggest challenges with scaling AI is increased energy demands for data centers,” Amazon’s sustainability report says.

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