Sustainable by design: Innovating for energy efficiency, part 2
In this blog, I’d like to share a few examples of how we’re bringing promising efficiency research out of the lab and into commercial operations.
To help accelerate sustainability progress at speed and scale, Microsoft is actively expanding AI in our Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. In this blog, we’ll explore the latest advancements, including enhancements to AI-powered analytics and reporting in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, the general availability (GA) of what-if analysis and intelligent insights, updates to Project ESG Reporting, and
In this blog, I’d like to share a few examples of how we’re bringing promising efficiency research out of the lab and into commercial operations.
Customers from many industries have been reaching out to us to discuss how to move from reporting to carbon reductions, and how to identify opportunities to drive sustainability progress in their organizations.
Read some examples of how we’re advancing the power and energy efficiency of AI.
Led by the European Union (EU), the new global push toward improved industrial carbon management (ICM) requires sophisticated new support mechanisms, including the development of technologies capable of orchestrating the carbon capture and storage (CCS) process from early planning to operations.
Microsoft is endeavoring to empower the 600 million smallholder farmers around the world by providing access to crucial technologies. With tools like Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and generative AI, Microsoft is helping farmers adopt smarter, more sustainable farming practices.
With the new project ESG reporting (preview) tool in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, organizations can streamline the ESG reporting process by collaborating on various ESG standards and frameworks at the same time.  Â
In our datacenter operations, one of the essential engineering questions we ask each day is: how can we continue to conserve water while meeting growing customer demand for cloud and AI innovation?
In this blog, we explain how creating scorecards and goals empowers you to curate sustainability metrics and track against your organization’s key business objectives. We also share other recent updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability designed to help you manage, track, report, and gain better insight into your sustainability data.Â
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) can help organizations take sustainability data in any format, organize, and normalize the data for sustainability regulatory reporting. This quantitative data reporting approach is complemented by a joint solution from Accenture and Avanade that leverages generative AI to provide qualitative insights.
AgPilot, designed by Microsoft’s partner Headstorm, leverages generative AI along with data from Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and agricultural retailers to create actionable insights for agronomists in real time.
In this blog, we show you how the ESG value chain solution in Microsoft Sustainability Manager enables you to gather data directly from your value chain partners, streamlining supplier engagement to gain a more comprehensive and accurate picture of those suppliers’ environmental impacts that contribute to your own company’s impacts.
Today, Microsoft published the 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report. This report covers fiscal year 2023, and measures progress against our 2020 baseline. You can read the foreword below and explore the report in its entirety.