Microsoft’s chief environmental officer on why we need a Planetary Computer

Microsoft’s chief environmental officer on why we need a Planetary Computer


What if we could treat the Earth like a computer, a system with an ever-flowing set of data that can be tracked, analyzed, and potentially even predicted. That's the gist of Microsoft's latest environmental initiative, which it's dubbed a "Planetary Computer.

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