Driving transformation (continued) Customers and partners Matching the supply and demand of carbon sequestration with AI and machine learning Project Acorn, developed by Rabobank, is a global, transparent, and technology-enabled marketplace and ecosystem for carbon sequestration. The proposition facilitates agroforestry projects among smallholder farmers in developing countries that sequester carbon in biomass through tree growth; the carbon removal units that result from this represent actual sequestration. To make small-size projects on an individual farmer level economically viable, Project Acorn uses remote sensing technologies, including the analysis of satellite imagery by specialized partners. The architectural design was built on a Dynamics 365 platform and uses customized Azure functionality. Optimizing offshore wind turbines with AI Algo Engines and Microsoft helped Ørsted, the world leader in offshore wind energy, to optimize the performance of more than 1,300 turbines on its wind farms, enabling it to fully phase out coal by 2023 and increase offshore wind capacity to 15 GW (enough for 30 million people) by 2025. Ørsted uses Microsoft Azure AI to determine where new turbines should be deployed. Previously, the computations for the foundations alone took weeks. With the cloud, that time is reduced to four to eight hours. The company also uses drones to inspect equipment and predictive maintenance to ensure all equipment is running at peak performance. 8 1,300 Microsoft helped Ørsted optimize the performance of more than 1,300 turbines, enabling it to fully phase out coal by 2023 and increase offshore wind capacity to 15 GW by 2025. Targeting carbon neutrality with Azure Digital Twins Vasakronan, Sweden’s largest real estate company, manages a real estate portfolio worth SEK170 billion (USD19.6 billion). To reduce operating costs for its commercial properties, the company has adopted ProptechOS, an Azure IoT-based solution that unlocks the potential of connected, intelligent properties. By adding Azure Digital Twins to this solution, in 2021 the company has saved upwards of 6 million krona (USD700,000) in energy consumption cost alone. By focusing on sustainability improvements, equally important to tenants, the company has experienced higher incomes through increased occupancy while simultaneously driving higher asset values. 8 Improving service efficiency with remote assistance Mercedes-Benz USA chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and HoloLens 2 technologies to improve service technician efficiency, reduce time to diagnose, and lower the cost and environmental impact of service- related travel. With Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and HoloLens 2, problems are typically resolved remotely without having to wait for a Field Service Engineer to visit the dealer. Travel has been cut by up to 40 percent, significantly lowering their carbon footprint. 8 Enabling building decarbonization with AI Nomad Go used the Co-Innovation Labs, recently launched by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation and Microsoft, to build a version of its building decarbonization solution using Azure Cognitive Services for computer vision with Sony’s IMX500 intelligent vision sensor. Nomad Go’s platform anonymously counts the number of people within a space (such as conference rooms or open areas), and then uses the real-time data to precisely heat, cool, and ventilate rooms only when occupied. This replaces set schedules, standard in most commercial buildings, which condition rooms for 12 hours or more a day, even when no one is in the space. The Nomad Go solution significantly reduces energy usage and greenhouse emissions by up to 38 percent. 8 Vasakronan uses an Azure IoT-based solution for connected, intelligent properties. 33