Sustainable IT benefits from cloud computing
One way to help businesses reduce CO2 is by shifting inefficient workloads to the cloud. There are significant sustainability benefits that can be unlocked by moving from on-premises to the cloud, such as the following:
- Reductions in energy consumption
- Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Higher utilization of carbon-free energy (CFE)
- Higher asset utilization
- Preservation of water
- Circular IT hardware management
- Better scope-3 management
With meticulous planning and a focus on execution, it can be a critical contribution to environmental sustainability. The analyst organization International Data Corporation (IDC) expects that more than 1 billion metric tons of CO2 from 2021 to 2024 could be prevented by accelerating the shift to the cloud. IDC suggests that “aggregating compute resources generates higher efficiencies, resulting in a substantial reduction in CO2 emissions.” By shifting...
