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Microsoft has issued a Datacenter Community Pledge to build and operate digital infrastructure that addresses societal challenges and creates benefits for communities. In this column, Noelle Walsh, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations and Innovations, explains the Pledge's focus on three core areas: contributing to a sustainable future, advancing community prosperity and well-being, and operating responsibly as a good neighbor.

It's the weekend! Kick back and catch up with these must-read articles from around the web.

In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, host Debra Chanil sat down with Marshall Duer-Balkind, Director of Policy Programs at the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), to talk about building performance standards (BPS) and their implications for the energy transition. He also gives an overview of IMT's mission and work, focusing on their efforts to improve the efficiency and performance of buildings through policy development and equitable decarbonization.

Caesars Entertainment, Inc., a casino-entertainment company, is implementing a new GHG reduction goal of 46.2% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline after achieving emission reduction goals three years ahead of schedule in 2022.

Global plant-based food ingredient supplier Green Boy Group was able to completely offset its Scope 1 and 2 emissions and part of its Scope 3 emissions, making the company carbon neutral in 2023.

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) signed a renewable PPA to secure 140 MW of wind energy from a new wind farm situated in the Western and Northern Cape Province.

Microsoft joined as a founding member of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) initiative Project Runway .

Polestar is lowering its supply chain emissions by integrating renewable fuels on its ocean freight routes, which account for around 75% of the automaker's total transportation emissions.

The deadline for nominations for Smart Energy Decisions' 2024 DEI Impact Awards is June 21. These awards will acknowledge company-wide efforts by large power users (commercial, industrial, institutional, and government) to advance DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), specifically focusing on the impact and amplification of energy and sustainability programs.

Zoetis Inc., an animal health company, reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 18.9% through operating changes and by making several investments since 2021.