Projects
Building a more environmentally sustainable future “We have a growing team of sustainability scientists working with researchers, businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations around the world to help Microsoft, its customers and partners, and the world to build a more environmentally sustainable future.” The Sustainability Science Team, part of our…
Transitioned | Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide — we designed, built, and deployed our own prototype subsea datacenter in the ocean, all in about a year.
The Zissou project is exploring immersion cooling in large-scale cloud platforms. Our main motivation is that chip power has been steadily increasing since the end of Dennard scaling.
Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate, as threats from human settlement expansion, illegal wildlife killing, and climate change place enormous pressure on wildlife populations. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting – but urgent – task…
Our land cover mapping work uses computer vision to accelerate the process of turning remote sensing data into land use and land cover information, so that environmental scientists and geospatial analysts can spend less time drawing polygons, and more time…
Through this project we hope to provide an effective tool to both policy makers and the general public to address air pollution and work toward cleaner air and healthier citizens.
Vasudha is a collection of projects that offer AI and IoT-enabled technology solutions to drive sustainability goals. This includes developing Vision AI algorithms for solar panel quality assurance or optimization and multi-agent simulations for renewable control decisions under uncertainties.
Markets match individuals to scarce resources or to each other. By designing the rules and infrastructure that govern markets, we can guide participants to optimal outcomes. In the process, we circumvent a wide range of market failures. If you are…
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of environmental sensing in cities in…