US EditionMicrosoft to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs
Microsoft reached its 2025 goal of 40 GW renewable energy contracts to match all electricity use, powering the equivalent of 10 million U.S. homes, with half already online.
- Microsoft announced Wednesday that it contracted 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy to reach its 2025 goal and matched 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable power.
- By using power purchase agreements, Microsoft said it shifted from renewable energy credits to PPAs for greater credibility and to support new projects with long-term contracts.
- Contracts span 26 countries with nineteen gigawatts already supplying power and the rest added over five years, enough to power 10 million American homes, Microsoft said.
- Microsoft said it's on pace to invest $50 billion by 2030 to expand AI and cloud data centres, and expects to advance a Dublin campus once a new renewable power policy begins next month.
- The company advocates an `all-of-the-above` decarbonisation strategy including nuclear and grid upgrades, while clean-energy accounting experts differ and Microsoft says it will engage on Greenhouse Gas Protocol frameworks.
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The Seattle TimesMicrosoft says it hit a key climate milestone. Does the math add up?
Microsoft announced Wednesday it has matched 100% of its electricity consumption with renewable energy, meeting a goal it set in 2020. The company’s electricity demand is projected to surge due to the expansion of data centers in a global artificial intelligence race, but the tech giant said for now, it had met a major milestone toward its “moonshot commitment” to become carbon negative by 2030. Read more...
The company announced that it achieved its goal of contracting 40 gigawatts of new renewable energy supply last year.
Microsoft has announced the achievement of one of the most important milestones within its global sustainability strategy: having achieved that all its annual electricity consumption is already compensated with renewable energy. In this way, the company fulfills the commitment set for the end of last year and advances in its road map towards the goal announced in 2020 of being negative in terms of carbon emissions by 2030. It is a goal that driv…
Microsoft Powers Ahead with 100% Renewable Energy Milestone
Microsoft has achieved a significant milestone in its sustainability journey, matching 100% of its annual global electricity consumption with renewable energy. This accomplishment is a key component of the tech giant’s broader sustainability strategy, which includes a commitment to use 100% renewable energy in its buildings and data centers globally by 2025. Additionally, Microsoft aims to become… Source
This commitment, which had been defined in 2020 "in the context of the ambition to become a negative carbon company up to 2030, represents a fundamental step in the construction of a more sustainable, accessible and reliable energy future", refers to technology, referring to "this progress is resulting from more than a decade of continuous investment in clean energy, which has enabled the company to reach a portfolio of more than 40 gigawatts (G…
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