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Microsoft launches data center initiative to limit power costs, water use

Microsoft launches data center initiative to limit power costs, water use

101 finance101 finance2026/01/13 14:27
By:101 finance

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a community-focused initiative aimed ​at lowering water usage at its ‌U.S. data centers and ensuring that the ‌power-hungry facilities do not drive up electricity prices for the public.

The company will pay utility rates high enough to ⁠cover its electricity ‌costs and work with local utilities to expand power supply ‍and add the required infrastructure to the grid when needed for its data centers.

Microsoft ​also pledged to replenish more ‌water than its data centers consume. The company said it would start publishing water-use information for each data center region in the U.S., along with ⁠its progress on replenishment.

The ​announcement comes after U.S. ​President Donald Trump said the tech giant would make "major changes" in ‍its ⁠AI infrastructure plans to make sure consumers do not pay more for ⁠electricity because of data centers' power consumption.

(Reporting ‌by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing ‌by Shilpi Majumdar)

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