
Sign the Petition
Big Tech, it’s time to break up with Big Oil!
This Week’s Action:

Why Microsoft?
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Sponsoring the International Petroleum Technology conference the same week they announced their “Carbon Negative by 2030” pledge (6).
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Using AI to extract an additional “50,000 barrels per day by 2025” from XTO-Exxon Mobil’s Permian Basin project (7).
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Committing to a “multi-year strategic partnership” to develop the Alberta Tar Sands, one of the most carbon intensive projects in the world (8).
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Having contracts with Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Plains Mid Stream Canada (PMC), Seadrill, CGG, Schlumberger, and VolgaGas (9).
Who can forget Clippy from Microsoft Word? Or the blue screen of death? With Microsoft doing their darndest to help Big Oil, what should these familiar faces really be telling us?
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Pick from the list of classic Microsoft images.
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Write a caption that tells the truth about Microsoft’s impact on our planet.
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Post your original content to social media! Make sure your caption includes the tags @Microsoft, #BigTechLovesBigOil, and a link to this site, BigTechLovesBigOil.com— so that your secret admirers can sign the petition too!
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Sources
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Google continues to use machine learning to discover oil reserves: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/oil-in-the-cloud/
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Amazon Web Services has an Oil and Gas division: https://d1.awsstatic.com/Industries/Oil/AWS_O%26G_Overview.pdf
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Microsoft recently hosted a conference titled “Empowering Oil and Gas with A.I.”: https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/2018/11/12/microsoft-demonstrates-the-power-of-ai-and-cloud-to-oil-and-gas-players-at-adipec-2018/
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“the future health of oil and gas companies is contingent upon our ability to drive transformation”: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/microsoft-in-business/energy/2019/06/27/reflecting-on-microsofts-oil-gas-leadership-summit/
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Big Tech has called for new regulations on facial recognition technology used to subjugate Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Color: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/13/facial-recognition-congress-316235/
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While Microsoft Was Making Its Climate Pledge, It Was Sponsoring an Oil Conference: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqypn/while-microsoft-was-making-its-climate-pledge-it-was-sponsoring-an-oil-conference
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ExxonMobil to increase Permian profitability through digital partnership with Microsoft: https://news.microsoft.com/2019/02/22/exxonmobil-to-increase-permian-profitability-through-digital-partnership-with-microsoft/
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Suncor deal with Microsoft for digital transformation first for the oilsands: https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/suncor-strikes-deal-with-microsoft-for-digital-transformation-in-first-for-the-oilsands
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Oil in the Cloud: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/oil-in-the-cloud/
Behold, the MemeStorm!
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