Microsoft periodically updates the public on its zero-carbon quest as it inches closer to its zero-negative timeframe of 2030, and today’s update includes some expansions in the world of hydrogen fuel cells.
As more businesses, governments, municipalities move operations to the cloud, datacenters are becoming the heartbeat to global activity and companies such as Microsoft are looking at alternative ways to power them while being eco-conscious.
Beyond windmills and solar power, Microsoft began betting on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology back in 2013 and it looks like it may be about to pay off as a no-carbon emission power resource.
Microsoft chief environmental officer Lucas Joppa research found that the PEM cells which combine hydrogen and oxygen for chemical reaction that produces electricity, heat and water without particulate matter and zero carbon emission, could be…
Microsoft’s Zero-carbon quest could rely heavily on Hydrogen fuel cells
