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Microsoft will purchase solar power from panels on Singapore's public housing and government buildings, supporting its climate goals.

Microsoft grabs 100% of Singapore’s largest solar project

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Microsoft has signed an agreement to purchase solar power generated from panels installed on hundreds of public housing and government-owned buildings in Singapore, advancing its climate goals.

The tech company will buy 100% of the energy fed into the grid from EDP Renewables’ SolarNova 8 project, as announced by the Madrid-based energy company on Tuesday.

This project is not only Singapore’s largest solar initiative but also the largest under the government’s SolarNova program.

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Source: Interesting Engineering

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Microsoft will support the development of 10.5GW of new renewable energy capacity around the world to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.

Microsoft made the biggest renewable energy agreement ever to fuel its AI ambitions

Microsoft just agreed to support the development of 10.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity around the world, a massive amount of electricity to fuel its AI ambitions and climate goals.

For comparison, 10.5 GW of renewable energy amounts to nearly half the amount of solar and wind capacity California had in 2022. This is quite literally a very big deal — effectively the largest corporate agreement to purchase renewable energy to date, according to BloombergNEF. Microsoft inked the agreement yesterday with Brookfield Asset Management, which said the deal is almost eight times bigger than what was previously the single largest corporate power purchase agreement ever signed.

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Source: The Verge

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Microsoft signs 110MW PPA with AES to power California data centers

Microsoft has signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with AES to procure renewable energy for its Californian facilities.

AES Corporation this week announced a 20-year agreement with Microsoft to provide renewable energy to its data centers in California.

In what AES called a “highly customized agreement,” Microsoft will partially match its load at their California-based data centers. AES will source the energy from a portfolio of 110MWAC solar and 55MW, 4-hour storage projects in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) region.

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Source: Data Center Dynamics

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