On January 28, 2021 Microsoft released its first Environmental Sustainability Report “A Year of Action” documenting progress the company made since announcing its 2020 commitments to become a carbon ...
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Reza_Ameri Thanks for your comment! You are correct: one of the most valuable contributions Microsoft can make in this space has to do with its vast scale and resources. By achieving its own sustainability commitments, it opens a path for smaller organizations to do the same by simply using Microsoft as their IT provider. One of the most obvious examples is shifting to Azure for cloud computing. All of Microsoft's data centers will run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, which means any organization using Azure gets the same benefit and reduction in its own carbon footprint. You can learn more here The Carbon Benefits of Cloud Computing: a Study of the Microsoft Cloud.
I don't have a side by side comparison with other tech companies on overall sustainability progress handy, but its an interesting idea for a future post.