Sims Lifecycle Services Collaborates with Microsoft, Facilitates Material Donations for Datacenter Academies Microsoft Datacenter Academy assists education partners in delivering training and certification to enable jobs in cloud computing and IT sectors News provided by Share this article Share this article WEST CHICAGO, Ill., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sims Lifecycle Services (SLS), a global leader in datacenter hardware circularity, IT asset disposition (ITAD), and electronics recycling, is proud to support Microsoft in its development of the Microsoft Datacenter Academy. As a Microsoft preferred supplier, SLS services Microsoft datacenters around the world by collecting equipment to be refurbished, reused, and recycled, as well as facilitates donations to the program.