The sound of climate silence from tech

The world’s tech titans — including some of its wealthiest people — urged President Donald Trump not to leave the Paris climate agreement in 2017. When he did, they excoriated him on social media.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter — the company he would later buy and rename to X — that leaving Paris was “not good for America or the world.”

Eight years later, the world is in an even worse place as temperatures continue to shatter heat records and emissions climb relentlessly higher.

At the same time, the need for energy to power data centers for artificial intelligence and other technologies has increased, which means the CEOs of Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft and Amazon could stand to gain from Trump’s mission to unleash American oil and gas. And Musk, also the chief executive of SpaceX and the artificial intelligence company xAI, is now among Trump’s biggest boosters.

So when the president signed an order to exit the Paris pact again on Monday, abandoning the United States’ pledge to cut emissions, those same tech titans said … well, nothing.