Cloud Sustainability Watch
Advocacy for tech professionals to cut the climate impact of cloud computing, AI, and data centers
The environmental impact of cloud computing has been an afterthought.
Times have changed.
“The Sustainable Computing Toolkit” Coming March 31 2025
US data centers produced 105 million tons CO2e in the past year
– Reported in “Environmental Burden of US Data Centers in the Artificial Intelligence Era” Nov 14 2024
Every company’s online computing takes a bite out of the world’s power supply, uses up drinking water, and emits carbon dioxide.
Most organizations and their tech teams don’t prioritize energy efficiency and environmental harm when making decisions about cloud computing. Solutions like low-emissions water-conserving data centers, green software design, streamlined AI use, and greenhouse gas emissions tracking all exist today. But it takes technology decision makers to embrace these options to reduce expense and slow their companies’ climate impacts and resource consumption.
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Recent Headlines
The environmental impact of cloud computing, AI, and data centers is a breaking news topic. Here is a collection of recent articles from leading publications that add to the public conversation and spur action.
Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing
CIO| February 4, 2025
Thinking About Using AI?
Green Web Foundation
Crackdown on Power-Guzzling Data Centers May Soon Come Online in California
sanjoseinside | January 28, 2025
What is AI's role in the climate transition and how can it drive growth?
World Economic Forum | January 16, 2025
Data centers must be transparent about water usage — for the sake of the Great Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Tribune | December 31, 2024
An interview with Annie Freeman
Apiumhub
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The IT team where you work controls the growth trajectory of cloud computing’s environmental impact
Every IT decision now has twice the importance, affecting both business results and the environment.
The AI Energy Score dramatically demonstrates the waste of large AI models
The superiority of smaller, specialized, more accurate AI models continues to gain attention.
Chevron building gas power plants for data centers
The announcement said the projects would integrate carbon capture and renewable generation.