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Noelle Walsh

Noelle Walsh

Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

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Published • 4 min read

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

By Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

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. Today, we’re sharing an important update on how Microsoft, and our datacenters, are helping to solve our part of this measurement challenge.

Published • 6 min read

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

By Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

Today we are launching our newest sustainable datacenter region in Arizona, known as “West US 3.” Datacenters are today’s engine for modern business, providing organizations of all sizes the cloud services and tools to innovate, collaborate, and operate securely and efficiently at scale. We build datacenters around the globe to address increased customer demand for Microsoft cloud services, and we do so with sustainability firmly in mind.

Published • 2 min read

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

By Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

In July 2020, we announced our goal to eliminate our dependence on diesel fuel for backup power in our datacenters by 2030. This is in addition to our commitment to have 100 percent supply of renewable energy procured for our datacenter operations by 2025. Reliable backup power is essential to our customer promise—delivering highly available, reliable, and scalable cloud services.

Published • 3 min read

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

By Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

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.

Published • 3 min read

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

By Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations + Innovation

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.