ENERGY & POWER
Eoin Doherty, Cloud Operations and Innovation EMEA Regional Leader at Microsoft said:“ The green hydrogen project we’ re launching with ESB is a pioneering first for Microsoft in Europe, demonstrating how zero-emissions hydrogen can be harnessed to power our digital lives.
“ If scaled successfully, it could provide new ways of advancing sustainability in our sector and beyond.”
Beyond hydrogen, Microsoft’ s deals for over 10GW of new wind and solar generation by 2030 underpin the world’ s largest single renewable electricity purchase agreement, an investment that aims to match – or even surpass
– its consumption across major data centre operations by 2030.
Such projects not only insulate operations from rising energy costs and potential outages but also position the company at the forefront of decarbonising cloud infrastructure. Critically, these initiatives showcase how data centres can be part of the solution, decoupling growth from fossil energy and grid dependency.
The rise of high-reliability fuel cells Fuel cells are rapidly gaining traction as a key enabling technology. Companies like Bloom Energy offer solid oxide fuel cells that provide clean, highly
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