Climate

Microsoft President Says Businesses Must Train Employees on Sustainability to Meet Climate Change Pledges

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Thousands of businesses will fail to meet pledges to combat climate change unless they start training employees on sustainability, Microsoft’s President Brad Smith told Reuters. Speaking ahead of a report the software maker released Wednesday, Smith said common instruction on issues like carbon accounting was too piecemeal for the roughly 3,900 companies that have vowed … Read more

Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact

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Microsoft, trying to mitigate the climate impact of its data center building boom, is starting to roll out a new design that uses zero water to cool the facilities’ chips and servers. Launched in August, the new design will eliminate the more than 125 million liters of water each data center typically uses per year, … Read more