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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.

We 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

Apoorva Acharya

Dorothy Bayern

Ben Clifford

Melissa Cocks

Alyssa Cortez

Erika Dains

Judi Eichler

Annie Freeman

Elisha Hardy

Susannah Hill

Co-Founder & President

Raul Incze

Co-Founder

Micah Laaker

Georgia Lechlitner

Corey Pudhorodsky

Our Board

Susannah Hill

Co-Founder & President

Julie Shanson

Vice President

Christina Steele

Treasurer & Secretary

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 San Francisco Climate Week, The Weather Channel, VERGE, and keynote talks at corporate events.

Our Sustainability

The average web page drives ~0.45g of carbon dioxide as well as fresh water consumption and air pollution from  data centers, data transmissions networks, users’ devices, and electrical power plants that burn fossil fuels.

Our website is exceedingly low impact and we are continuously improving to adhere to the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (and Susannah volunteers time as an invited expert to the W3C Sustainability Interest Group‘s updates the Guidelines). Here are details about why this is true.

Our Green Website Design

Sustainability characteristics of the Cloud Sustainability Watch website include:

  • Few images and no video, with all files and images compressed via webp to require minimal data transfer
  • Dark backgrounds for much of the site, to reduce the power usage of visitors’ laptops and phones so they use less power to display content
  • No excess code that makes unnecessarily large page sizes and no excess font files
  • Slow loading files so they transfer over the network only when they are needed
  • Very low carbon and zero-water hosting services (see our hosting company information below)

Our Web Designers, erjjio

Our expert green web design and development partner is erjjio, a London-based B Corp digital agency that specializes in the creation of low-carbon websites. They are indispensable for making our website simple, appealing, and environmentally sound. Here is more about them:

Erjjio