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Microsoft has begun informing partners and suppliers that it will pause new purchases of carbon removal credits, a move that introduces fresh uncertainty into a market heavily reliant on corporate...
Major institutional investors are escalating pressure on Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google, demanding clearer disclosure on water consumption and energy use tied to rapidly expanding US data center infrastructure. The...
Microsoft has agreed to purchase 626,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal credits from the North Star bioenergy with carbon capture and storage project, marking a significant step in scaling...
Microsoft has secured a major new supply of durable carbon removal, signing a 10-year agreement with biochar company Liferaft to purchase one million carbon removal units. The deal ranks among...
Microsoft announced it has met its 2025 renewable energy target, securing enough clean electricity to match 100% of power consumed by its datacenters, campuses and buildings worldwide. The milestone rests...
Europe’s largest electricity consumers and grid technology providers have formed a new industry body aimed at accelerating the overhaul of the continent’s power infrastructure, as grid congestion and slow connections...
• Multi-year offtake that sources crop residues for durable carbon removal across India’s cotton belt• More than 2 million tonnes of projected carbon dioxide removals over a 15-year project life•...
Microsoft has agreed to purchase two million tonnes of nature based carbon removal credits from Rubicon Carbon sourced from Kijani Forestry’s smallholder reforestation project in Northern Uganda. Deliveries will run...
A New Model For AI Infrastructure Siting Microsoft announced a national Community-First AI Infrastructure initiative to govern the next wave of AI datacenter construction in the United States, pledging to...
Microsoft has signed an agreement with InPlanet to remove more than 28,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2026 and 2028 using enhanced rock weathering, deepening its exposure to engineered carbon...
• Microsoft and Iberdrola have signed two long term wind PPAs in Spain covering 150 MW, extending a transatlantic clean power portfolio to around 500 MW.• The deal links renewable...
• Microsoft commits to purchasing 3.6 million metric tons of engineered carbon removal over 12 years from a single US project, signaling long-term demand for durable removals.• The $2.5 billion...
• Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund invests in Pantheon Regeneration to scale U.S. peatland restoration and carbon removal.• Pantheon’s Pocosin Ecological Reserve I stands among the first commercial peatland restoration projects...
Aragón agreement ties renewable procurement to local impact A new renewable energy agreement in Spain is linking corporate power demand with community-level environmental and social funding, as Zelestra, Microsoft and...
• Surging AI-driven energy use from major tech firms has pushed demand for durable carbon-removal credits to levels that outstrip supply.• High-quality removals are now almost four times more expensive...
• New AI assistant built on Azure AI Foundry will give agronomists instant access to 20 years of detailed crop data.• Partnership aims to cut production costs and stabilize yields...
Abu Dhabi leads new AI-energy integration push Abu Dhabi has launched a major cross-sector initiative linking energy and technology at unprecedented scale. ADNOC announced a new alliance with Microsoft, Masdar,...
Arca Secures Landmark Carbon Removal Partnership Vancouver-based Arca, a company specializing in industrial mineralization, has entered a long-term offtake agreement with Microsoft to deliver nearly 300,000 tonnes of durable carbon...
Microsoft Deepens Ties with UNDO to Scale Carbon Removal Carbon removal company UNDO has signed a new agreement with Microsoft to permanently remove 28,900 tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2036,...
Microsoft has expanded its renewable energy footprint in Japan, signing three new solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Shizen Energy that bring its total commitment with the developer to 100...
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