Petra Cicek

🌍 Sustainability at Microsoft: Progress and Pathways Forward As we continue our journey towards a more sustainable future, I’m excited to share highlights from Microsoft’s 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report. This pivotal document, covering fiscal year 2023, reflects our steadfast commitment to the planet and showcases both our achievements and the challenges ahead. 📈 Key Achievements: Operational Emissions: We’ve made significant strides in reducing our direct operational emissions (Scope 1 and 2). Carbon Removal: Our efforts in accelerating carbon removal have been fruitful, with over 5 million tonnes in multi-year carbon removal offtake agreements1. Circularity and Waste: We’re designing for circularity to minimize waste and reusing cloud hardware more effectively. Biodiversity: We’re improving biodiversity and protecting more land than we use. 🚀 Innovating for Impact: The integration of new technologies like generative AI holds promise for innovative solutions to the climate crisis. However, it also presents new challenges, as seen with a 29.1% increase in our Scope 1-3 emissions due to data centre construction and AI expansion12. 💧 Water Stewardship: We’re intensifying efforts to reduce water use and replenish more water than we consume, particularly in our datacenter operations. 🔍 Looking Ahead: While we’re on track in several areas, we acknowledge the need to mobilize and accelerate progress where we’re falling short, especially in reducing our Scope 3 emissions and water usage3. Let’s continue to innovate, partner, and push the boundaries of what’s possible for a sustainable future. Read the full report and join us in taking action: https://lnkd.in/e5tGxEpy #Sustainability #Innovation #Microsoft #EnvironmentalImpact

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Excited to share that my recent podcast episode delves into my personal experience with Artificial Intelligence! 🎙️🤖 Thank you to Cristi Movilă, CMX for inviting me to discuss how AI has influenced my projects. Tune in to hear about the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from integrating AI into my work. #ibm #AI #podcast #technology #innovation #artificialintelligence #genai #watson

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🚀 The merger of Coca-Cola HBC presented unique challenges, including the need for a cohesive operational framework across diverse systems. By choosing RunMyJobs Redwood Software, they effectively centralized their IT infrastructure, leading to improved control and visibility. With the successful integration of their SAP landscape, Coca-Cola HBC can now manage 9,000 end-users across 26 countries, ensuring their processes are both efficient and scalable. This partnership highlights the critical role of automation in achieving operational excellence in today's complex business environment. #DigitalTransformation #WorkflowAutomation #BusinessSuccess #CaseStudy

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Today Microsoft released the 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report.   We are optimistic about the role technology can play in accelerating climate progress, and we look forward to working with others on this critical journey for the planet.   Read more from Microsoft President Brad Smith and Microsoft’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Melanie Nakagawa.  #msftadvocate #sustainability

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As our data economy grows, so do the energy consumption and carbon emissions from data centers and cloud applications. How can we balance business expansion with carbon reduction? By integrating diverse technologies into a holistic IT strategy! Join the virtual event “Powering Sustainable Green IT: Strategies for a Greener Future in the Digital Age” to learn how to elevate your IT strategy and make it sustainable! https://lnkd.in/gm9sKynP

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Learn from the experts at the SAP for #Energy and #Utilities Conference on how companies like #Solarpack, #OGE, #DEWA, and #Nortegas are leveraging AI to drive #efficiency and #sustainability. Discover the power of digital transformation and be inspired to make a difference 🌱💡🔋 https://imsap.co/6047dLszl

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How can IBM Maximo asset management help you manage assets more cost-effectively? Get lessons learned from Sund & Bælt when it adopted IBM Maximo to reduce time and costs and improve quality by automating inspections.

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84% of software executives have implemented AI into their software design lifecycles in the last 5 years. Join OutSystems, KPMG and CIO Dive on October 22 to gain insights from industry experts on the transformative power of integrating #AI into the software development lifecycle.

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I ❤️ #Microsoft Microsoft published the 2024 #Environmental #Sustainability Report. This report covers fiscal year 2023, and measures progress against our 2020 baseline. 🔷 Carbon negative -- Our carbon negative commitment includes three primary areas: reducing carbon emissions; increasing use of carbon-free electricity; and carbon removal. We made meaningful progress on carbon-free electricity and carbon removal in FY23. Microsoft has taken a first-mover approach to supporting carbon-free electricity infrastructure, making long-term investments to bring more carbon-free electricity onto the grids where we operate. 🔷 Zero waste -- Our journey to zero waste includes reducing waste at our campuses and datacenters, advancing circular cloud hardware and packaging, and improving device and packaging circularity. In FY23, we achieved a reuse and recycle rate of 89.4% for servers and components across all cloud hardware, a target that is increasingly important as needs for cloud services continue to grow. In 2023, we also diverted more than 18,537 metric tons of waste from landfills or incinerators across our owned datacenters and campuses, and we reduced single-use plastics in our Microsoft product packaging to 2.7%. 🔷 Water positive -- We take a holistic approach to becoming water positive, which includes water access, replenishment, innovation, reduction, and policy. In 2023, we achieved our water access target by providing more than 1.5 million people with access to clean water and sanitation solutions. We contracted water replenishment projects estimated to provide more than 25 million m3 in volumetric water benefit over the lifetime of these projects – enough water to fill about 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Finally, we continue to drive innovation in water, through first-of-their kind replenishment projects like FIDO, which leverages AI-enabled acoustic analysis to reduce water loss from leakage. 🔷 Protecting ecosystems -- We have committed to protecting more land than we use by 2025, while preserving and restoring ecosystems in the areas where we live and work. As of FY23, we exceeded our land protection target by more than 40%. At this point, 15,849 acres of land have been legally designated as permanently protected compared to our goal of 11,000 acres. We are incorporating green business practices that support the surrounding ecosystems near our campuses and datacenters. This includes regenerative design solutions around our datacenters that enhance local biodiversity, improved stormwater management, and contributing to climate resilience. We are also piloting AI-driven Microsoft technology to provide insights into the overall health of the ecosystem and inform future actions. Here is the complete report ,,,,,

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🌍80% reduction in water intensity (water consumed per kilowatt-hour) from the first generation of Microsoft datacenters to the current generation by: 💧Conserving water at every stage of operations, such as use of reclaimed and recycled water in Texas, Washington, California and Singapore, as well as harvesting rainwater in the Netherlands, Ireland and Sweden.  💧Implementing innovative technologies that reduce the amount of water needed for cooling such as cold plates, liquid cooling and microfluidics #Sustainability #Innovation #Microsoft #WaterEfficiency #CloudComputing #Datacenters #MicrosoftAzure #ArtificialIntelligence https://lnkd.in/g546Yupc

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Tackling #sustainability isn't easy. Get an inside look into how companies like Infosys, TurkTelekom and Magyar Telekom approach going green 🌱 in the #DataCenter: https://ow.ly/P9Hl30sEArj #VSPOne

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Amazing news to hear, read, and realize! Digital Transformation Division Manager in the Energy and Utilities Industry gives IFS Field Service Management Software 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ Field Service Management Market. Read the full review here: https://ifs.link/9rXwz1 #gartnerpeerinsights

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As Government and industry looks at how and where to unleash the full potential of Generative AI responsibly, there are key considerations that should be taken into account Kyndryl experts point us towards 4 key pillars to help you build your #GenAI road map 1) Build a strong data foundation 2) Leverage large language model operations (LLMOps) 3) Manage for potential shadow AI 4) Choose the right use cases #PROgress https://lnkd.in/ew7FJxzm

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From optimizing #AI models and leveraging renewable energy sources to developing entirely new computing paradigms, learn how these approaches are reshaping the landscape of AI and paving the way for a more sustainable future.

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