Microsoft wanted to be carbon negative by the end of the decade, to remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Emissions fell 6 percent in the first year. There was a strange side effect of the Pandemic. The company's Xbox One X was selling so fast that stuck-at- home players played a lot more than they would normally. That affected the bottom line of Microsoft. The company estimates that the console produces 1,600 pounds of carbon emissions over its lifetime, but the majority of that is due to the fact that players are plugging into a dirty electricity grid. Along with factors like data center construction and equipment making, many thousands of hours of Call of Duty: Warzone were one big reason why last year Microsoft's overall emissions spiked more than 20 percent.
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