Advocating For Decarbonization Of The Power Sector
Microsoft News, Wednesday, August 16,2023
This month, Seattle hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Officials' and Ministerial Meetings, and Microsoft was honored to welcome the APEC member energy ministers and their delegations to our campus for a private-sector decarbonization roundtable.
APEC's member economies play a critical role in advancing Microsoft's and the world's clean energy goals. The 21 economies account for more than half the world's energy demand and over two-thirds' the world's electricity generation.
Microsoft has a direct interest in an expanded and clean electric grid with over 60 Azure regions operating now or coming soon, and more than 300 datacenters across the globe. Over half of these regions are in APEC economies. Our cloud services are an asset to governments, corporations, and innovation across the planet and we require reliable electricity to fuel this technological innovation in every country we operate.