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Definitely Microsoft has got some low-hanging fruit. From what I've personally seen:

* Connector buses idle all of the time while waiting for passengers

* Certain cafeterias have gas ovens running 24/7 even if nothing is being cooked

* Dev boxes with huge Xeon chips being left on all night

I also wonder if we'll see a greater push toward remote-first work, given the high carbon costs of physical facilities.

I wonder if there may also be a push to reduce some compute-intensive workloads, like training/scoring ML models or refreshing analytics dashboards that are not mission-critical and maybe not even actively being used.

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