Tell Microsoft: Drop the Chevron AI Gas Deal

Picture this: A tech giant promises to help solve the climate crisis — then turns around and helps Big Oil build the power system for the next generation of the internet.

That is what Microsoft appears poised to do with Chevron. The proposed data center, called Project Kilby, is expected to consume nearly 2.7 gigawatts of electricity — roughly the power needed to run about two million homes. That staggering demand makes Microsoft’s choice of energy source even more consequential.

Microsoft has promised to be carbon negative by 2030. But now, the company is reportedly locking itself into a 20-year deal with Chevron to power a massive West Texas AI data center with fossil fuel gas.

That is a dangerous betrayal of Microsoft’s climate commitments — and a warning sign for the entire tech industry.

AI may be new, but fossil fuel pollution is not. Burning gas releases climate-heating carbon pollution. Gas infrastructure leaks methane, a greenhouse gas far more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near term. And building new fossil fuel power plants today risks locking communities into decades of pollution at the exact moment scientists say we must rapidly move away from coal, oil, and gas.

Microsoft has the money, influence, and engineering capacity to help build the clean energy future. Instead, this deal would help Chevron monetize more fossil fuels from the Permian Basin and set a terrible precedent: that Big Tech can make public climate promises while privately expanding demand for gas.

The AI boom cannot become a climate bomb.

Microsoft should not be allowed to claim climate leadership while underwriting new fossil fuel infrastructure. If AI data centers need enormous amounts of power, then Microsoft must meet that demand with clean energy, efficiency, storage, grid upgrades, and transparent planning — not a two-decade lifeline for Big Oil.

We urge Microsoft to cancel or withdraw from any long-term Chevron gas power agreement for its AI data centers and commit that all new data center growth will be powered by truly additional, clean, renewable energy.

Microsoft must also publish a public plan showing how it will cut — not increase — total climate pollution from AI and cloud computing, including full accounting of direct emissions, supply chain emissions, methane risk, water use, and local air pollution.

Microsoft has a choice: build the future on clean energy, or drag the AI revolution backward into the fossil fuel era.

Tell Microsoft to choose climate leadership and drop the Chevron gas deal.

The petition to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and the Microsoft Board of Directors reads: Cancel or withdraw from any long-term Chevron gas power agreement for Microsoft AI data centers, and commit that all new data center growth will be powered by truly additional, clean, renewable energy. Microsoft must publish a transparent plan to cut — not increase — total climate pollution from AI and cloud computing, including full accounting of direct emissions, supply chain emissions, methane risk, water use, and local air pollution.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/chevron-cvx-microsoft-msft-natural-gas-data-center.html