Microsoft Will Continue Matching All Its Power Use with Renewable Energy Purchases

Microsoft has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to buying enough renewable energy to completely offset all the electricity used by its global operations, after achieving this goal for the first time last year. The technology company’s pledge supports its broader sustainability targets as it expands energy-intensive artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure worldwide.

The company said it met its 2025 target by securing contracts for 40 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity, mainly through long-term power purchase agreements with utilities and developers. Of that total, 19 GW is already supplying clean power to electricity grids in 26 countries, with the remainder expected to be connected over the next five years. Microsoft’s cloud operations head, Noelle Walsh, said the firm intends to maintain this 100 % renewable energy matching as it continues to grow.

Microsoft’s sustainability leadership also highlighted the growing role of carbon-free electricity sources beyond wind and solar. Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa pointed to agreements such as a power purchase deal involving a restarted nuclear plant, which will help support the company’s matching goals through 2030 — a year by which Microsoft aims to become carbon negative. In parallel, the company plans to invest roughly $50 billion by 2030 in expanding AI and cloud data centres across the “Global South,” with much of that energy expected to come from renewable sources.

The continuation of Microsoft’s renewable energy strategy — covering contracts across dozens of countries — also reflects broader industry efforts to align high electricity demand from data centres with sustainable energy supply, reinforcing incentives for clean-power deployment at scale.