{"id":34801,"date":"2023-01-26T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/microsoft-plans-to-buy-2-5-gigawatts-of-solar-power-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:45:52","slug":"microsoft-plans-to-buy-2-5-gigawatts-of-solar-power-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/microsoft-plans-to-buy-2-5-gigawatts-of-solar-power-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft plans to buy 2.5 gigawatts of solar power \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With simply seven years left to realize its one hundred pc renewable power targets, Microsoft stated it will add as a lot as 2.5 gigawatts of solar energy to its operations underneath a partnership with South Korea’s Hanwha Qcells.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has an enormous power footprint with greater than 200 workplaces and 60 cloud areas; many of those services devour tens of tens of millions of watts of energy each hour because the racks of servers churn by means of petabytes of information.<\/p>\n

It is not uncommon<\/a> for a cloud area to have 50MW or 60MW of capability. And with hotter, greater wattage CPUs and GPUs starting to hit the market, energy consumption in lots of of those services will little doubt enhance, as cloud suppliers, like Microsoft, transition to greater rack densities.<\/p>\n

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