Noelle Walsh-Elwell | Microsoft Azure Blog

November 2, 2022
5 min read

Sharing the latest improvements to efficiency in Microsoft’s datacenters

Our objective moving forward is to continue providing transparency across the entire datacenter lifecycle about how we infuse principles of reliability, sustainability, and innovation at each step of the datacenter design, construction, and operations process.

April 22, 2022
4 min read

How Microsoft measures datacenter water and energy use to improve Azure Cloud sustainability

One of the biggest topics of discussion at COP26, the global climate conference held in November 2021, was how a lack of reliable and consistent measurement hampers progress on the path to Net Zero.

June 15, 2021
6 min read

Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona

Today we are launching our newest sustainable datacenter region in Arizona, known as “West US 3.

June 1, 2021
2 min read

Progress on our commitment to sustainable backup power in datacenters by 2030

In July 2020, we announced our goal to eliminate our dependence on diesel fuel for backup power in our datacenters by 2030.

February 11, 2021
4 min read

Microsoft will establish its next U.S. datacenter region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas Counties

Datacenters are part of today’s critical infrastructure—providing reliable and scalable compute power for online transactions, conference calls, virtual classrooms, supply chain and inventory management, internet searches, and much more around the world.

November 24, 2020
3 min read

Achieving 100 percent renewable energy with 24/7 monitoring in Microsoft Sweden

Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021.

July 27, 2020
3 min read

Aiming for more than just net zero

Many companies are reaching for net zero emissions, but we’re taking it even further.

January 16, 2020
3 min read

Microsoft Sustainability Calculator helps enterprises analyze the carbon emissions of their IT infrastructure

For more than a decade, Microsoft has been investing to reduce environmental impact while supporting the digital transformation of organizations around the world through cloud services.