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Efficiency and Sustainability
Our colleagues on Microsoft's environmental sustainability highlighted a study recently that helps put
our roles in Global Foundation Services into perspective. The
new SMARTer 2020 study concluded the potential of the IT industry
to reduce annual emissions by 9.1 GtCO2e by 2020, which is a
staggering seven times greater than the carbon footprint of the IT
industry itself.
This study illustrates opportunity for IT-related services like
cloud computing to make an impact on a global scale. As part
of the team that supports over 200 Microsoft's cloud services
including Skype, Office 365 and Azure, we clearly see how these
offerings can contribute to the reductions outlined in the
study. A lot of hard work lies ahead for the industry, but we
at Microsoft look forward to sharing more about our latest
efficiency
projects, our
lessons learned and providing world-class cloud services for
our customers.
To download the SMARTer 2020 study, go here.
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