He didn't make the comparable pledge. He should also pledge to stop using the Internet. The global Internet uses twice as much electricity as the country of Japan and is necessarily fuelled—at the same ratio as the rest of the planet—with hydrocarbons. Forty per cent of the global Internet is coal-fired and 30% is natural-gas-fired. We should stop doing the Zooming we're doing right now, because we're consuming hydrocarbons all over the planet.
On May 13th, 2021. See this statement in context.