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Microsoft is building wooden data centers in its latest push to cut emissions
- could this be the future of AI power?
Date:
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:33:00 +0000
Description:
Microsoft is building wooden data centers in its latest push to cut emissions
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Steel and concrete, the traditional materials used in data center
construction, are major carbon emittersm but in a move toward sustainability,
Microsoft is testing fire-resistant cross-laminated timber (CLT) in its first
wood-based data centers near a northern Virginia suburb.
The company says this project is part of an all-hands-on-deck task to meet
the companys ambitious climate targets: becoming carbon negative by 2030 and
offsetting all emissions since its founding by 2050.
Although Microsoft has made progress towards this goal, data centers indirect
emissions - stemming from materials extraction, manufacturing, and transport
- rose by 30.9% over three years. A market mover
Using CLT, alongside concrete and steel, in the hybrid design is projected to
reduce embodied carbon emissions by 35% compared to traditional steel
construction and 65% compared to standard concrete.
Microsofts decarbonization efforts extend beyond this project, supported by
its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund, which has so far invested $761
million in scalable environmental projects.
Microsoft is collaborating with green building material companies, including
Swedens Stegra, which is developing a hydrogen-based steel process that emits
water vapor instead of carbon, cutting emissions by up to 95%. Microsoft has
also partnered with Boston Metal, which uses renewable electricity to produce
steel while generating oxygen instead of carbon dioxide.
To lessen reliance on traditional cement, Microsoft has teamed up with
companies like CarbonCure, which injects CO into concrete, and Prometheus
Materials, which creates zero-carbon cement using microalgae. Microsoft plans
to pilot Prometheuss cement in its Virginia data centers to test its
durability.
Microsoft is in a unique position just because theyre so large, says Thomas
Hooker of Thornton Tomasetti, a structural engineering firm working with
Microsoft. They can almost be like a market mover and to some extent actually
push some of these technologies to more widespread use just because its a
high priority for Microsoft.
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-building-wooden-data-centers-in-its
-latest-push-to-cut-emissions-could-this-be-the-future-of-ai-power
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