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Microsoft is a guinea pig for climate friendly concrete as it paves the way to greener data centers

GeekWire

Microsoft contractors mixed test slabs of lower-carbon concrete at the site of a new data center in Quincy, Wash. Dan DeLong Photo for Microsoft) Microsoft is building 120 new data centers this year alone, and operates more than 300 of the server hubs worldwide. So the Redmond, Wash.-based

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO Business Intelligence

Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. While organizations know they need to mitigate environmental risks more effectively across the supply chain, often they struggle to translate that ambition into results.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

The related storage and computing operations rely on massive data centers around the world that are packed with computers that chug energy 24 hours a day. Both businesses need low-carbon steel and concrete as they build out data centers or corporate office buildings. Click to enlarge.

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How the Pacific Northwest is playing a key role in the burgeoning world of carbon capture tech

GeekWire

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory chemical engineer Dushyant Barpagaare is using a laboratory continuous flow system to study solvents that can capture carbon from the air. On Tuesday, CNBC reported that Microsoft will tell customers more about the energy use of its data centers used for cloud computing services.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Bezos’s philanthropic track record Before 2018, Bezos didn’t have much of a philanthropic résumé.