Building together a Sustainable future
summary
Microsoft commits to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove all historical emissions by 2050, and demonstrates a working smart‑building pipeline: room sensors (three per room), Azure IoT Hub feeding Azure Digital Twins, centralized storage, Power BI dashboards and automated alerts that email/Teams facilities teams. Internal study finds 16.1 million metric tons total emissions, ~75% in scope 3. Prototype runs on building data collected since 2019, nightly vendor dumps (current latency ~48 minutes); it works but global standards for scope‑3 and energy attribution remain unresolved.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:00What is global warming
- 4:10The next generation
- 9:35Microsoft Approach to Sustainability
- 13:30Microsoft Goal
- 16:10Four key areas
- 16:40Start your journey
- 18:10Azure distributors
- 18:40Smart building
- 20:25Dashboards
- 21:40Rooms
- 22:05Experience Zone
- 22:25Logic
- 23:50Architecture
- 27:10Volatile Status
- 28:45Scope 3 Emissions
- 29:30Conclusion
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