A fossil-free internet is possible, so why are tech companies burning up so much oil and gas? We believe the internet should serve everyone: openly, fairly, and without wrecking the planet in the process.
But a handful of corporations are failing to publicly disclose their energy use in a way that makes it easy to monitor. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google control two-thirds of the internet’s cloud infrastructure and are emitting more CO2 gasses every year despite their net-zero targets. Internet companies are building data centres the size of small cities in communities that never asked for them, and obscuring the details from the public.
This is the finding at the heart of Green Web Foundation’s first State of the Fossil-Free Internet report.
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On May 27, 2026 at 16:00 CET we’re hosting a public briefing to explore what we found with experts in the field.
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We’ll demonstrate how AI is driving the surge in fossil-fuelled data centre construction, why the green energy claims of the world’s biggest tech companies should be questioned, and what the communities, technologists and policymakers already pushing back have to teach us. We’ll also highlight meaningful pathways to a just and sustainable internet.
Whether you work in tech, in climate, or you simply use the internet and think the corporations running it should be held to account, this conversation is for you.