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Microsoft named Principal Partner for COP26
Time is running out on efforts to stabilize our global climate system. Doing so will require transitioning our world to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. Failing to do so risks unprecedented social and economic disruption. This year, the…
In the news | TechRepublic
Microsoft’s Azure IoT platform helps make farming greener as well as smarter
Precision agriculture brings sensors, AI, and farming together to deliver better crops with lower environmental impact. Now it’s also helping to track carbon.
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Sustainability: A year of progress and a decade of action
One year ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith and CFO Amy Hood announced Microsoft’s bold commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove our historic emissions by 2050. This was the beginning of Microsoft raising the bar on…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
One year later: The path to carbon negative – a progress report on our climate ‘moonshot’
A year ago, we launched the biggest commitment in Microsoft’s history to focus on the climate crisis. As Satya Nadella, Amy Hood, and I announced last January, Microsoft committed to become carbon negative as a company by 2030 – meaning that by that date we will remove…
In the news | National Geographic
Greener air travel will depend on these emerging technologies
Here’s a word you may have overlooked in 2020: flygskam, a Swedish term for the feeling of being ashamed to fly. In a year that saw a 66 percent decrease in flights, compared to 2019, you might think that flygskam…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Earlier this summer, marine specialists reeled up a shipping-container-size datacenter coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemones from the seafloor off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The retrieval launched the final phase of a years-long effort that proved the concept of underwater…
Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to fit…
In the news | Microsoft Innovation
A Planetary Computer for Earth
Microsoft AI for Earth combines user-friendly software tools with cloud-based artificial intelligence to empower organizations and individuals working to advance sustainability around the globe.
AI for Earth with Dr. Lucas Joppa
Episode 72, April 17, 2019 – We hear a lot these days about “AI for good” and the efforts of many companies to harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve some of our biggest environmental challenges. It’s rare, however,…