2024 cloud sustainability research reveals positive changes in some of the environmental data provided by big three cloud vendors.
Hyperscale cloud service providers market their services on the basis that not only are they more cost-effective than the on-premise datacentres of old, but that this efficiency makes them greener by default.
To some extent this is true, but datacentres are sucking up ever greater quantities of electricity and water to power and cool these gigantic buildings – and that’s after the carbon expended used to build them in the first place.
If you’re one of the 84% who told our Tech Trends survey that sustainability matters to them and their businesses, how do you decide which cloud offers the best combination of cost efficiency and sustainability?
An obvious first step is ESG reports, but these often run to 100 pages. Unvarnished data has to be hunted down (usually in an appendix), and getting details involve navigating multiple footnotes and references to supporting documentation. It’s not surprising that fewer than 10% of those in our survey said they read ESG reports in detail.
Read the entire article here: https://www.computing.co.uk/research/4194768/sunnier-skies-ahead-cloud-giants-dial-greenwash
