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Four ways cloud computing reduces carbon footprints
Four ways cloud computing reduces carbon footprints

November 10, 2022

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The earth is heating up, and as the days go by, pressure is being put on the energy industry. The explanation is simple: almost half of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide are directly or indirectly attributable to the energy sector. Today, the environmental impact of businesses in every industry is closely examined by investors, regulators, and consumers.

For instance, BlackRock, the largest fund manager in the world, rejected 55 board members from businesses in 2020 who didn’t act on climate change. This fund manager turned down nearly five times as many applications this year, including one from a significant O&G company. Additionally, an O&G company was recently forced by a Netherlands court to reduce its emissions more drastically and quickly than anticipated. And in some areas, having a license to operate is contingent upon achieving considerable emissions reductions.

Reducing carbon emissions is becoming more widely recognized as a necessity than a want. The goal of the energy industry is to reduce emissions by half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 to prevent climate change’s worst consequences. To achieve its sustainability goals, the energy sector is investing in new technological innovations and digital solutions, including lowering energy consumption and carbon emissions using renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydro, tidal, geothermal, and biomass.

Four ways cloud computing reduces carbon footprints:

  • Cloud data centers conserve energy at their most basic level by achieving very high virtualization ratios, often on newer, more energy-efficient equipment used in on-premises setups.
  • By relying on renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydro instead of fossil fuels, most large-scale cloud data centers are sustainable and beneficial for the environment.
  • To reduce significant losses caused by the transmission of electrical energy over long distances, public cloud data centers are often situated closer to the facilities that supply them with power.
  • Because of their superior hardware configuration, cloud computing data centers consume less energy to run their cooling and backup power systems. These data centers are created with efficient energy use in mind and are scaled for maximum utilization.

 

 


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