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Microsoft’s second annual Global Sustainability Supplier Summit has exposed the defining infrastructure challenge of the AI era: the computing industry cannot keep treating environmental performance as a problem confined to datacenter walls. With Microsoft Cloud spanning more than 500 datacenter...

Additional coverage of this story: Microsoft FY25 Emissions Rise 25% to 20.29M Tons on AI Growth EdTech Innovation Hub quantifies FY25 emissions at 20.29 million metric tons and attributes the rise partly to Microsoft ending non-additional renewable-energy certificates, while detailing Azure...

Microsoft published its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report on July 9, 2026, covering fiscal year 2025 against a 2020 baseline, and the headline is this: Microsoft matched 100% of its annual electricity use with renewable energy, replenished more water globally than it withdrew, and...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Build 2026 attendees in early June that Microsoft’s newest AI data centers can use, over a year, roughly the same amount of water as a single restaurant, because their cooling systems rely on a closed liquid loop filled once. The claim is technically plausible...

In a significant move to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey (MENAT) region, e& enterprise has partnered with Microsoft to launch the AI for Business Skilling Programme. This initiative aims to equip small and medium-sized businesses...