Driving operational efficiency and sustainability with AI and data modernization
Microsoft is actively collaborating with energy companies on industrial carbon management solutions to help modernize and transform the industry.
Microsoft Industry Blogs: Sustainability
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Unlocking the future: AI and data revolutionize industries at Microsoft Ignite 2024
At Microsoft, we are dedicated to harnessing AI to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and foster sustainable growth across sectors.
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Drive specific reduction and reporting targets with AI
To help accelerate sustainability progress at speed and scale, Microsoft is actively expanding AI in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Sustainable by design: Innovating for energy efficiency, part 2
In this blog, I’d like to share a few examples of how we’re bringing promising efficiency research out of the lab and into commercial operations.
Driving business value with ESG data readiness
Customers from many industries have been reaching out to us to discuss how to move from reporting to carbon reductions, and how to identify opportunities to drive sustainability progress in their organizations.
Sustainable by design: Innovating for energy efficiency in AI, part 1
Read some examples of how we’re advancing the power and energy efficiency of AI.
Enabling carbon reduction in the energy industry
Led by the European Union (EU), the new global push toward improved industrial carbon management (ICM) requires sophisticated new support mechanisms, including the development of technologies capable of orchestrating the carbon capture and storage (CCS) process from early planning to operations.
AI in the fields: Copilot powers smarter farming
Microsoft is endeavoring to empower the 600 million smallholder farmers around the world by providing access to crucial technologies. With tools like Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and generative AI, Microsoft is helping farmers adopt smarter, more sustainable farming practices.
Streamline ESG disclosures with new and expanded reporting solutions
With the new project ESG reporting (preview) tool in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, organizations can streamline the ESG reporting process by collaborating on various ESG standards and frameworks at the same time.
Sustainable by design: Transforming datacenter water efficiency
In our datacenter operations, one of the essential engineering questions we ask each day is: how can we continue to conserve water while meeting growing customer demand for cloud and AI innovation?
Simplify reporting with real-time insight into your sustainability progress
In this blog, we explain how creating scorecards and goals empowers you to curate sustainability metrics and track against your organization’s key business objectives. We also share other recent updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability designed to help you manage, track, report, and gain better insight into your sustainability data.
Leverage AI to simplify CSRD reporting
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) can help organizations take sustainability data in any format, organize, and normalize the data for sustainability regulatory reporting. This quantitative data reporting approach is complemented by a joint solution from Accenture and Avanade that leverages generative AI to provide qualitative insights.
AgPilot: Enhancing productivity and efficiency with AI for smarter farming
AgPilot, designed by Microsoft’s partner Headstorm, leverages generative AI along with data from Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture and agricultural retailers to create actionable insights for agronomists in real time.