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Scott Guthrie

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284 total appearances

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The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

And then once we fill the data center, we will not replace the water for at least six years.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

So there's no evaporation.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

There's no water loss.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

It's continuously recirculated.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

It's a closed-loop system.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

It's about five feet per second of water flow into a GPU and out.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

And so we flow the water in.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

The water temperature goes up by 20 degrees Celsius.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

runs out and cools somewhere.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

Shoots out the building, we cool it, shoot it back in the building when it's chilled again.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

So it's incredibly efficient from a sustainability perspective.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

It's also one of the commitments we talked about in the keynote this morning is, you know, all of our data centers in Azure will be 100% renewable energy by the end of the calendar year.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

So we're pumping more renewable energy in the grid than we're taking out.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

When we made that commitment, it was before the AI push, so it became a lot harder as we started building.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

We're hanging in there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

And a lot of it is, these are not carbon credits.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

This is not an accounting trick we're doing.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

This is real renewable energy that we're pumping into the grids.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

And it's a combination of solar, hydro,

The Neuron: AI Explained
Inside Microsoft's AI Superfactory with Scott Guthrie

Wind, nuclear in many places.