Carbon emissions reductions in the cloud: Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability at Inspire 2021

Microsoft has routinely highlighted its environmental sustainability efforts in recent months and at Inspire 2021 it picked up the theme, announcing Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. 

Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer explained the offering in a blog post:

Organizations need to be able to record their environmental footprint, report to stakeholders, reduce their resource usage, remove their footprint through carbon offsets or recycling and replace high footprint resources with low-footprint ones. But doing this effectively means moving away from manually inputting data into spreadsheets, and toward a more seamless data flow via data connectors that provide automated, accurate, real-time data — and ultimately, turn those data-driven insights into action.