Microsoft has met its 2025 renewable energy goal of purchasing enough renewable energy to match all of the electricity used by all its datacentres, buildings and campuses by 2025.

In 2020, Microsoft announced a “moonshot” commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 with a key milestone to match 100 per cent of annual global electricity consumption with renewable energy by 2025. Only 14 months late, Microsoft has contracted to add 40GW of renewable energy to the grid 19GW of which are already online.

Starting in 2013 with a single 110MW power purchase agreement (PPA) in Texas that supported Microsoft’s cloud services the extra 40GW of new renewable energy supply comes from 26 countries, working with more than 95 utilities and developers across over 400 contracts.

The new renewable energy procurement will reduce Microsoft’s reported Scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 25 million tonnes, and as the company pushes towards becoming carbon negative by 2030, its energy strategy includes a broader set of carbon-free energy and grid-enabling technologies, including nuclear energy, next-generation grid infrastructure and carbon capture technology.

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