Microsoft aims to build Planetary Computer system for sustainability

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Building on Microsoft’s 2030 carbon negative commitment announced in January, the company’s president Brad Smith has unveiled plans for a global computing initiative for sustainability. “This Planetary Computer would provide insights into critical questions that scientists, conservation organisations and businesses already ask every day, often with no easy way to obtain a locally relevant answer,” he said. Combating climate changes requires organisations to measure and manage natural resources that sequester carbon, such as trees, grasslands and soil. Smith announced that Microsoft was entering the next phase of its AI for Earth programme, committed to building this planetary computer platform through dedicated investments in infrastructure development. Smith added that Microsoft was also building the tools and services to help customers worldwide understand the ecosystem around them today as it exists, monitor and model changes from climate or human behaviour, and manage these in a way that protects biodiversity, their community’s well-being and way of life, and the planet.

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