Montana DOJ raises greenwashing claims in probe into four Big Tech companies’ energy use

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is working with 15 other Republican attorneys general to investigate the renewable energy claims and power usage of four of the world’s largest tech companies.

In a press release the Montana Department of Justice issued Thursday, Knudsen accused Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft of misrepresenting their power procurement practices. Knudsen also accused the companies of threatening grid reliability by driving up electricity demand as they incentivize private-sector companies to add more renewable energy sources — e.g., wind and solar power — to the nation’s grid.

Knudsen and his colleagues’ greenwashing allegations are based on assertions that the aforementioned Big Tech companies have issued “misleading and deceptive claims” that they are “solely”