Microsoft said on Monday that it had taken an important step in testing the use of hydrogen to replace diesel. The company also announced its desire to eliminate its dependence on diesel fuel by 2030, which is also.
A first conclusive test
In a blog post, Microsoft explains that diesel currently represents less than 1% of its overall emissions. The fuel is mainly used in Azure data, for motor generators diesel that are used during power cuts or other disturbances.
The tech giant points out that the cost of hydrogen fuel has recently fallen, making it an economically viable alternative to diesel .
In addition, "an Azure data center equipped with fuel cells, a hydrogen storage tank and an electrolyzer that converts water molecules into hydrogen" and oxygen could be integrated into the power grid to provide a load balancing service, says Mark Monroe, a senior infrastructure engineer on the Microsoft Advanced Data Deployment team.
This week, in a test, Microsoft used hydrogen fuel cells to power a row of data center servers for 48 consecutive hours .
Azure news
Regarding the others Azure news, Microsoft has added new options to its collection of Azure Migrate tools for data center assessment and migration . Last week, Microsoft announced that it is adding support for migrating from on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure to Windows virtual desktop, and migrating on-premises .NET web applications to the Azure Migration program. Azure App Service / Azure SQL.
Jeremy Winter, Associate Director of Azure Management, points out that he "talks more to the customer about migration than any other domain right now.
He adds that Microsoft is working to consolidate its migration tools. It also expands its capabilities for customers who want to create assessments from their own configuration management database, as well as for customers interested in assessments regarding VMware migrations.
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