Yesterday, Microsoft announced a significant step to
reduce our environmental footprint by committing to achieve carbon
neutrality by 2012. As the team that operates our cloud
infrastructure, Global Foundation Services (GFS) will be
instrumental in achieving this goal.
First, our continued effort to improve efficiency in our data
center operations, using such measures as Power Utilization
Effectiveness (PUE), and Carbon Utilization Effectiveness (CUE),
will help reduce our overall carbon footprint. Second, our
detailed measurement and chargeback model allocates expense to
business workloads based on energy consumption, establishing the
right incentive to design for efficiency. We are proud to be
taking these steps and driving accountability for reducing our
environmental impact across all of our business units.
We believe climate change is a serious challenge requiring a
comprehensive and global response from all sectors of society. For
more information on our carbon neutral strategy, read our
whitepaper, "
Becoming Carbon Neutral: How Microsoft is Becoming Lean, Green, and
Accountable." You can also read more about this and our other
environmental efforts on Microsoft's blog Software
Enabled Earth.
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