Microsoft Azure has introduced a groundbreaking offering with the launch of the world’s first Carbon-Free Compute Service Level Agreement (SLA). This new agreement provides a firm guarantee to enterprise customers that their cloud workloads will run exclusively on real-time, verifiable zero-emission energy. The core of this system is an innovative, blockchain-backed energy verification layer. This layer meticulously tracks and authenticates the power origin down to the minute, verifying its source across the solar, wind, and geothermal grids that supply Azure’s vast network of data centers.
Enterprises operating across Europe, the United States, and Australia are the first to be able to select this specialized carbon-free tier. This service is designed for computationally intensive tasks, including massive AI training jobs, High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads, and mission-critical enterprise applications where the carbon footprint must be zero. The launch is specifically expected to attract heavily regulated industries—such as global banking, government agencies, and major telecom providers—all of which are under increasing pressure to meet mandatory net-zero and climate commitments.Industry leaders are signaling that Azure’s new SLA creates a significant competitive advantage within the highly contested cloud market. As sustainability requirements transition from voluntary initiatives to mandatory prerequisites, particularly for large public tenders and enterprise procurement processes by 2027, this verifiable zero-emission compute offering establishes a critical new benchmark for sustainable technology infrastructure.
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