About
The mission of Cloud Sustainability Watch™ is to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and data centers. The world’s online computing significantly contributes to global power consumption, water usage, and greenhouse gas emissions while disrupting communities.
The group’s mission is to advocate for and enable technology professionals to improve business results and reduce climate damage by adopting sustainable computing practices and technologies.
Our Thought Leadership Community
Our Board
Speaking Appearances
Susannah Hill is a thought leader in mitigating the environmental impact of cloud computing, GenAI, and data centers. She inspires audiences to take action. Recent appearances include hosting a panel at San Francisco Climate Week, “Your Organization’s Online Computing Is an Environmental Problem” and keynote talks on the same topic at corporate events. Watch for Susannah’s upcoming appearance at WCS Talks later this year.
Our Community
Please join our LinkedIn group for the latest information and discussion.
Our Sustainability
The average web page is just over 2MB and clicking on it emits ~0.45g of carbon dioxide. Clicking on our website emits ~0.09g of CO2. That 80% emissions reduction is due to applying green web design. The pages are optimised to reduce data transfer and our hosting is as close to clean energy powered as the market offers.
Our web design and development partner is erjjio, a London-based B Corp digital agency which specialises in the creation of low-carbon websites. They also offer a website certification system, which you can read about here.
Our low-impact hosting provider is Viridio, a B Corp public benefit corporation leveraging solar power – view Live PV Cam.