Total and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate as strategic partners to further digital transformation and support progress toward net-zero emissions
The dynamic development of Microsoft and Total in their respective areas of expertise and their rich histories of innovation brings many concrete opportunities for collaboration over a multi-year timeframe:
Total’s global presence and market knowledge can support Microsoft's sustainability objectives, including its 2025 target for renewable energy and contribute to the energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction efforts of its data centres.
Total will further leverage the cloud platforms of Microsoft. Total has decided to accelerate its IT transformation and leverage the power of Azure for digital transformation projects and for Total Digital Factory. Total will broaden and enrich its existing modern workplace environment, based on Microsoft Office 365 which will provide collaboration and productivity solutions for its employees and its operations.
In addition, Total will explore the value of the Power Platform to automate business processes, reduce cost and allow easier access to data for its citizen developers.
Explore and co-innovate on areas of collaboration around sustainability, further digital transformation and AI solutions, accelerating the transition to a net-zero economy, for example, the deployment of low-carbon and carbon-removal technologies.
As part of its sustainability objectives, Microsoft aims to eliminate its dependency on diesel fuel by 2030. Total, through its affiliate Saft, will support Microsoft in its development of a long-term roadmap to diesel-free operations, initially by helping Microsoft assess the suitability of various Total technologies as part of Microsoft’s portfolio of onsite backup energy assets.
Microsoft and Total established a partnership to assess the long-term feasibility of deploying large batteries as backup power for critical infrastructure. This assessment is being carried out with the help of Saft, a global leader in backup power batteries.
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) batteries play a critical role within Microsoft’s data centre infrastructure. Saft batteries will provide additional values to help Microsoft improve its specifications to its UPS suppliers and ultimately meet its sustainability goal. Those values are energy savings, higher safety, lower Cobalt, and a self-powered monitoring system to ensure optimised system availability.
Microsoft has made a public commitment to use 100% renewable energy by 2025. Total’s ambition is to reach 35GW of renewable electrical capacity in 2025 and then nearly 100GW in 2030.
“The rapid development of Total and Microsoft in their areas of expertise brings many opportunities of cooperation for both companies, who are at the forefront of the fight against climate change,” said Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of Total.
