To help reduce its future reliance on traditional steel, Microsoft last year became an investor in Sweden’s Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel), which is building the world’s first large-scale green ...

Further out, Microsoft has its eyes on solutions that could ratchet down embodied carbon in concrete and other building materials to zero and, potentially, make them carbon negative. Many of these ...

Steel and concrete, the traditional materials used in data center construction, are major carbon emittersm but in a move toward sustainability, Microsoft is testing fire-resistant cross-laminated ...

Part of Microsoft's response to accelerate decarbonization is to test data centers made of CLT, a prefabricated fire-resistant wooden material. There will still be steel and concrete used in this ...

Microsoft is constructing two data centers in Northern Virginia partially using cross-laminated timber. The data centers use a combination of wood, steel, and concrete, which Microsoft said is ...

Carbon Direct and Microsoft have unveiled a comprehensive guide outlining high-quality environmental attribute certificates (EACs) for the concrete and steel industries. This criteria aims to ...

The formation of MS steels involves transformation of most of the austenite structure existing during the annealing or hot-rolling process to the martensite structure by rapid quenching in the cooling ...