Microsoft funds collaboration with industry partners and policymakers and runs a Climate Innovation Fund of $806 million across 67 investees to accelerate carbon-free power, storage, and energy-management solutions.

The announcement highlights progress in accelerating partnerships and technologies for sustainability across Microsoft’s ecosystem and its customers.

Context and related links illustrate the broader energy-transition landscape and the company’s ongoing decarbonization efforts.

Looking ahead, Microsoft plans to expand its clean-energy portfolio over the next five years and use artificial intelligence to operate power grids more efficiently.

As electricity demand grows from electrification and digitalization, Microsoft cites partnerships—such as restarting an 835 MW nuclear plant and supporting a 50 MW fusion project—as part of its strategy to meet demand while keeping renewables front and center.

Executives say continued investment and supportive regulation will help meet data-center demand while maintaining renewable-energy commitments.

The company reports it has offset 100% of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy, advancing toward its carbon-neutral goal by 2030 and marking this milestone as of February 18, 2026.

This achievement aligns with Microsoft’s broader strategy to accelerate decarbonization, expanding partnerships and technologies for sustainability across its business, customers, and the world.

Top sustainability leaders emphasize governance and operational responsibility, with quotes from Melanie Nakagawa and Noelle Walsh underscoring accountability behind the initiative.

Microsoft has built a massive renewable energy portfolio, contracting 40 gigawatts across 26 countries, with 19 GW already online and the rest slated to come online over the next five years, under more than 400 contracts with 95 utilities and developers.

Despite the milestone, the company notes the ongoing need to build remaining projects and strengthen global grid infrastructure to enable wider clean-energy integration and reduce carbon dependence.

In Ireland, a policy shift lifting a data-center grid-connection moratorium could meet pent-up demand, with potential for a Dublin-area campus once a policy requires at least 80% of annual demand from added renewables.