The logic of Microsoft's climate position has always rested on additionality — the argument that its renewable energy purchases and carbon removal investments offset its growing compute footprint. The West Virginia project breaks that logic at the unit level. A single facility running 1.35 GW on 100% natural gas does not fit inside an offset framework; it precedes one. The , which means grid-level renewable energy purchases cannot reach it. The hourly matching standard — the one Microsoft championed as the meaningful improvement over annual matching —…