What Real Estate Firms Can Learn From Microsoft’s Sustainability Reporting
In January 2020, just before the pandemic hit, tech giant Microsoft made a big commitment to sustainability. Company leaders laid out a detailed plan of…
Microsoft’s New Manhattan Office Is In a Growing Tech Hub
Times have not been great for the tech sector over the past year. Big name tech companies, stung by tough economic conditions, implemented rounds of…
Data Centers Are Energy-Guzzlers, but That May Not Be the Case for Long
As the world’s digital infrastructure continues to expand, data centers can’t be built fast enough. The pandemic-induced shift to remote work, online education, video streaming,…
Microsoft Bridges the Smart Building Divide on the Arabian Peninsula
The world at the turn of the 19th Century was a dynamic one. New empires were springing up on both sides of the Atlantic, as…
Stop Calling Your Building Smart, Prove It
The term smart building gets thrown around so much that we have become desensitized to it. The concept seems so simple to us, living in…
Cloud Cities
1983 feels like a long time ago. Michael Jackson first performed his iconic “moonwalk,” Apple released its boxy Lisa computer, and Return of the Jedi…