The company has co-developed a demand-supply matching platform with its energy supplier in Sweden.
Microsoft plans to open new sustainable data centers in Sweden next year to meet increasing demand for cloud services in the country. It will be the first deployment of a system that uses Azure IoT technology that monitors energy consumption to match it with renewable energy from its power company Vattenfall on an hourly basis, ensuring that its data centers use 100 percent renewable energy, the company said.
The cloud giant announced its plans to build the new data center region in late November. A cloud availability region is a geographically dispersed set of data centers, which in this case will be built in the cities of Gävle, Sandviken, and Staffanstorp. The new facilities will provide access to Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform service in Sweden.