Microsoft is committed to sustainability and the environment and that is why it will build its next data centers in Sweden

On different occasions we have talked about the communication centers in which Microsoft is working. It is about powerful infrastructures that require a large consumption of energy and a large financial outlay for their creation.

The Redmond-based company has opted for data centers located underwater, but for this proposal they have opted for a different solution. It is about implementing their future data centers or at least some of them, in a European country, in Sweden to be more exact.

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Microsoft wants to build these new data centers in Gävle and Sandviken, some data centers that arrive with the aim of feeding the increasing consumption requirements for cloud storage, an infrastructure from which more and more services and applications are being used."

Following the line followed by both Microsoft and other companies (Apple, Facebook, Amazon...), these data centers seek to achieve a good balance between consumption and power generated, so the new data centers would be among the most sustainable in the world.

This is not the first time that at Microsoft have opted for renewable energy Already in 2017, Microsoft bought 100% of wind energy generated at a 180 megawatt wind farm adjacent to its local data center operations in the Netherlands.

Microsoft wants to continue betting on achieve a zero emission in terms of carbon emissions, something it has been looking for since 2012 and in this In this sense, the company is committed to using renewable sources: wind, solar and hydroelectric. Earlier this year, Microsoft Chairman Brad Smith confirmed that by the end of this year, the company will meet its goal of powering its data centers with 60% renewable energy and will aim to hit 70% renewable energy. renewable by 2023, on the way to 100% efficiency. In the words of Noelle Walsh, CVP, Cloud Operations & Innovation, Microsoft Corp:

To bring this development to fruition, Microsoft will work with Vattenfall, one of Europe's largest electricity and heat producers and retailers. The goal is to achieve renewable energy supply for future data centers and develop solutions to reduce the carbon footprint produced by data centers while a new power infrastructure is built to provide stable power for the facility and surrounding areas in Sweden for years to come.