Amazon Says Its Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 Amid Post-Pandemic Pullback
- Company cut spending in logistics, cloud-computing divisions
- Data center construction is picking up again as AI booms
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Amazon.com Inc. says its carbon emissions fell for a second straight year in 2023 as the company cut spending on new warehouses and cloud-computing data centers.
The e-commerce giant’s greenhouse gas emissions last year dropped 3%, to 68.82 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The reduction was driven by a 13% decline in emissions related to capital goods – including construction and equipment purchases. The Seattle-based company’s capital expenditures fell by about $10 billion in 2023 as it worked through a pandemic-era glut of warehouse capacity and cut spending on the data centers that power Amazon Web Services.