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Holistic Approach to Energy Efficiency in Datacenters - New Whitepaper
The Global Foundations Services team (the team that manages Microsoft datacenters) today posted a new paper focused on energy efficiency in our datacenters. The paper’s author, Dileep Bhandarkar Ph.D.,...
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New Study Reveals the Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud
Today we released the findings of a new study that looked at the energy and carbon emissions associated with cloud computing. Together with our partners Accenture and WSP Environment and Energy, we...
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New Modular Design Featured in Microsoft’s Quincy Datacenter Expansion
Today the Datacenter Services team shed some light on the expansion at the Quincy, Washington datacenter. In a blog post from Kevin Timmons, General Manager of Microsoft’s Datacenter Services team, he...
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New Innovations in IT Support Environmental Sustainability in Africa
Microsoft Corp. today announced its ITPAC datacenter technology will be utilized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of the energy efficient IT infrastructure for a new energy-neutral UN...
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Microsoft Shares Video Tour of its Cloud Data Centers
Today Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services team is releasing a video tour of four Microsoft data centers. The video provides an inside look at how the company has invested heavily to evolve its...
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Slowing Energy Consumption in the Data Center
In a new report released this week by Jonathon Koomey , a consulting professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford University, electricity used by data centers worldwide...
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Microsoft’s Data Center Takes Fresh Approach On Water Reuse
Today, Microsoft is announcing the transfer of our $ multi-million water treatment plant located on our data center site in Quincy, WA, to the City of Quincy. This project involves innovative...
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Reducing carbon emissions through Microsoft Store Online and the cloud
Using the download only service from MS Store could save a user up to 83% in terms of carbon emissions when compared to the more traditional fully packaged product distribution, shows a new research...
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Thinking Off the Grid: Independence for today’s Data Centers via Data Plants?
Question. Why do data centers need to be connected to a dirty, expensive, unreliable electrical grid? Answer. They don't and they don't want to be either. Integrating a data center directly into the...
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This Week In Sustainability: Week of 4.23.12
After a brief hiatus for the “week in sustainability” round up, we’re back at it! This week, The New York Times Green Blog highlighted the unveiling of an interactive Internet-based map allowing people...
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This Week In Sustainability: Week of 4.30.12
The commercial possibilities associated with gathering energy consumption data continue to attract utility companies and energy management vendors. Katherine Tweed of Greentech Media drove home this...
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This Week In Sustainability – Week of July 30
GreenBiz published an article this week on the European Union and the carbon market. The European Commission has proposed to strengthen its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the system by which the EU...
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Making Data Centers More Sustainable
Today our colleagues at Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services , which manages the company’s data centers across the globe, published a new blog post and accompanying whitepaper that summarize the top...
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What’s in a Data Center? Less and Less Energy and Water
Our colleagues in Global Foundation Services are dedicated to reducing the environmental footprint of Microsoft’s data centers. Brian Janous published a blog post on the GFS Blog today that outlines...
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Why Cloud Computing Is Efficient Computing
Our friends over in Global Foundation Services published a blog post last night in response to the New York Times series looking at the environmental and economic impacts of cloud computing. These are...
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Microsoft’s Annual Citizenship Report and Environmental Sustainability
Today, Microsoft released its ninth annual Citizenship Report , which provides an overview and assessment of our citizenship work over the past fiscal year. The report includes goals and achievements...
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Q1 Environmental Sustainability Action Award and WASABi
Each quarter, the company gives out an Environmental Sustainability Action Award in recognition of an employee or team who has shown leadership, exemplifying how Microsoft and its employees can have a...
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EPA Migrating to Microsoft Cloud
We’ve written before about how cloud computing has the potential to reduce energy use by 30 to 90 percent when organizations migrate from smaller data centers to Microsoft’s cloud. That’s one reason...
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Microsoft Building Biogas-Powered Data Center in Wyoming
Earlier this year our colleagues in Global Foundation Services shared a concept for what they called a Data Plant , a fuel cell-powered data center designed to run on biogas generated from landfills or...
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This Week In Sustainability – Energy Efficient Data Centers and a Philippine...
This week, GreenBiz discussed data center efficiency, a hot topic across the tech industry as companies seek to reduce their carbon emissions and environmental impact. A global industry group called...
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