Decarbonize at Hyperscale

As Microsoft expands datacenter capacity, every new facility must help close the gap between growing digital demand and the company’s long-term carbon commitments.

Protect Speed to Market

Hyperscale infrastructure moves on compressed schedules. Microsoft needed lower-carbon construction strategies that could support performance and resilience without compromising the speed required to add capacity.

Design for People Too

Microsoft saw an opportunity to bring warmth, natural materiality, and well-being into an intensely technical environment.

Cabon Reduction Blueprint

The hybrid system shifts embodied carbon from an accepted cost of rapid expansion into a design variable Microsoft can actively reduce at scale.

Timber Mainstreamed

By proving CLT at hyperscale, Microsoft can use its purchasing power and project pipeline to expand demand for lower-carbon materials and specialized expertise.

Experience Humanized

Exposed timber, reclaimed wood, sustainable furnishings, and biophilic cues bring warmth to employee spaces within a building type traditionally dominated by machinery.