The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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News - Business Operations, Microsoft
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The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, Essex
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
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Microsoft acquires 600 acres of land for data center in Woodward, Iowa
Local residents raise concerns
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Microsoft's senior director of AI systems hardware architecture joins OpenAI
Wilson Vu to work on OpenAI's compute architecture
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Microsoft to invest $10bn into Gulf states by 2030
Earmarked for investments across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait
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Microsoft hires new director of global energy and sustainability policy
Ray Fakhoury III joins from AWS
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Microsoft files to develop two-building campus outside Atlanta, Georgia
Expanding plans in Union City
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Microsoft files to build data center campus in Prince William County, Virginia
Company looks to develop two buildings outside Gainesville
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Microsoft targets 38GW of data center capacity in 2032 - report
Currently operates ~12GW
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Microsoft reveals Azure earnings for the first time, adjusts financial reporting practices
Previously Azure was included under "intelligent cloud" segment
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Lambda secures $1bn private debt to purchase Nvidia GPUs - report
Chips will be leased to Microsoft
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Pre-construction works start on Microsoft data center in Vaasa, Finland
Company is waiting on permits to commence building
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Iren delivers first phase of AI capacity to Microsoft in Texas
More on the Horizon
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Microsoft launches 'India South Central' Hyderabad cloud region
First announced in 2022, is cloud company's fourth region in India
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Former Microsoft researcher launches data center robotics startup
Exclaim Robotics secures $4.95m in pre-seed funding to build first bots
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Microsoft details plans for data center in Langley, UK
Langley Business Centre site could be redeveloped into a data center
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Microsoft buys more land in Middenmeer, Netherlands, for potential data center development
Another 37.5-hectare plot added to portfolio
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Trump expands Ratepayer Protection Pledge with 200-plus new signatories
Including utility heavyweights Southern Company, PPL Corp, NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and American Electric Power
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Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft data center site with acid-filled balloons
Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Will bring Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle under direct regulatory oversight
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Microsoft plans to cut 4,800 jobs
Primarily impacts Xbox, but cloud workers also hit
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National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas
Joulent is a portfolio company of Engine No. 1
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Microsoft reveals plans for data center in Sandnes, Norway
Will join the Norway East region
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Microsoft signs land purchase agreement for data center in Grevenbroich, Germany
Cloud giant developing another site near Cologne
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Microsoft UK's Thames Valley Park campus could be redeveloped as a gas-powered data center
Reading site set to head to public consultation
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AWS and Microsoft designated 'gatekeepers' under Europe's Digital Markets Act
European Commission's preliminary decision comes despite duo "not meeting the DMA's quantitative thresholds"
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Microsoft's first data center at Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, campus now operational
Two years after project was announced
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Microsoft plans 2GW data center campus in Pecos, Texas
Chevron signed on for energy supply deal
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Microsoft proposes ratepayer-protection tariff in Nevada
Part of its Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative, announced earlier in the year