Microsoft launched a brand new video Wednesday that shows the most recent progress on a multi-year redevelopment challenge reshaping a big swath of its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
In an replace on its web site, the corporate mentioned staff are near ending the primary constructing on the brand new East Campus, a Thermal Power Middle that may use a whole bunch of deep wells for clear vitality to warmth and funky the brand new buildings.
Amongst different tidbits, Microsoft mentioned it’s modernizing the famed “Lake Invoice” to higher match its pure environment. The lake, which is actually extra of a pond, was named after co-founder Invoice Gates, and it’s one of many few components being preserved from the corporate’s authentic Redmond campus.
The corporate additionally supplied new particulars about art work deliberate for the brand new campus; an authentic Microsoft mouse that will likely be “hid” in one of many buildings; and a sequence of recent all-electric kitchens that may use induction cooking as a part of the corporate’s bigger environmental targets.
The challenge is going down on 72 acres of Microsoft’s 500-acre Redmond campus, with 3 million sq. toes of area changing the unique Microsoft buildings on the Redmond campus.
The corporate moved to Redmond in 1986 from close by Bellevue, the place Microsoft was based mostly for a time period after Gates and Paul Allen relocated the corporate from Albuquerque, N.M.
Microsoft mentioned in February that the primary workplace constructing within the new campus was on monitor for occupancy in late 2023. Previous to the pandemic, the primary buildings had been anticipated to open in 2022 and 2023.