# 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.

[Learn more](https://datacenters.microsoft.com/sustainability)

### Recycle and Reuse

Circular Centers are helping to achieve Microsoft’s goal of being zero waste by 2030.

[Learn more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcWg7F85puY)

## 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.

[Learn more](https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/space/)

## 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.

[Learn more](https://www.microsoft.com/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/report)

## Community initiatives

Microsoft builds local partnerships that deliver economic, social and environmental benefits to the communities in which datacenters are located.

[Learn more](https://local.microsoft.com/)

## Datacenter design

Our latest datacenters are designed for the era of AI, and use zero water for cooling the thousands of GPUs running inside.

[Learn more](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/)

# WeLiveinthecloud

Explore the hidden world of datacenters

# Introducing the AI Assistant

You can ask the AI assistant questions about how we design, build and operate our datacenters with innovations around security, reliability, and sustainability.

This assistant uses AI and may contain mistakes. Please verify referenced source material as needed.

[Get started](https://www.microsoft.com)