Renewable energy
Sustainability
Carbon usage
Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030 and, by 2050, will have removed more carbon from the environment than the company has emitted since its founding.
Recycle and Reuse
Circular Centers are helping to achieve Microsoft’s goal of being zero waste by 2030.
Infrastructure
Azure Orbital
Azure Orbital, a satellite ground station service, enables customers to communicate, downlink and process data from their satellites without having to build their own stations.
Security
Perimeter fence
High-security perimeter fences surround Microsoft datacenters.
Checkpoint
All vehicles and pedestrians enter through monitored checkpoints.
Sustainable power
Green energy
To date, we have contracted 34 gigawatts (GW) of carbon-free electricity (CFE) across 24 countries, about an eighteenfold increase since 2020.
Community initiatives
Microsoft builds local partnerships that deliver economic, social and environmental benefits to the communities in which datacenters are located.
Datacenter design
Our latest datacenters are designed for the era of AI, and use zero water for cooling the thousands of GPUs running inside.
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