Cloud Computing Carbon Reduction

云计算减碳

• 批准号: 10075527
• 金额: $ 6.17万
• 依托单位: GREENPIXIE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10075527
• 关键词: Cloud; Computing; Carbon; Reduction

The technology sector (encompassing electronics, software, computers and AI) is responsible for ~4% of global emissions; on a par with global aviation. These emissions are projected to reach 10-30% by 2030\. The growing reliance on data-centres is a key driver that is increasing emissions significantly, with data-centres using \\\>11% of Ireland's electricity generated. Several areas, including North London, have limited the construction of data-centres to reduce electrical grid demands. The EU's Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the UK Sustainable Disclosure Regulation (SDR) come into operation in 2023/24, and place requirements on large organisations to report on their Scope 3 carbon-footprint. This opens a significant market, potentially £44bn, and has the potential to dramatically reduce emissions if organisations can fully utilise their data. The US and other large economies are expected to enter the market within a few years. Greenpixie is a UK-based technology company delivering sustainability data about cloud-computing usage to multiple sectors using a novel and innovative approach that provides granular data outputs. This supports enhanced decision-making for businesses. The current approach to greenhouse gas emissions of digital services relies on tools offered by service providers, however, these often do not deliver enough in-depth or granularity within the data. The big 3 cloud-service providers are also not incentivised to reduce cloud-data wastage. Additionally, service providers only offer tools that work on their own platform, making managing emissions across multiple cloud-service providers (AWS(Amazon), Azure(Microsoft) and GCP(Google)) impossible. Greenpixie's approach delivers a technology-agnostic view on emissions data allowing an organisation to easily understand their entire portfolio of services.

技术部门（包括电子、软件、计算机和人工智能）约占全球排放量的 4%；与全球航空齐头并进。预计到 2030 年，这些排放量将达到 10-30%。对数据中心的日益依赖是导致排放量显着增加的一个关键驱动因素，数据中心使用了爱尔兰发电量的 11%。包括北伦敦在内的几个地区限制了数据中心的建设，以减少电网需求。 欧盟的可持续财务披露法规 (SFDR) 和英国可持续披露法规 (SDR) 将于 2023/24 年开始实施，并要求大型组织报告其范围 3 碳足迹。这打开了一个潜在 440 亿英镑的重要市场，如果组织能够充分利用其数据，则有可能大幅减少排放。美国和其他大型经济体预计将在几年内进入该市场。 Greenpixie 是一家总部位于英国的科技公司，使用一种新颖且创新的方法提供精细的数据输出，向多个行业提供有关云计算使用情况的可持续性数据。这支持增强企业决策。 当前处理数字服务温室气体排放的方法依赖于服务提供商提供的工具，但是，这些工具通常无法提供足够深入或粒度的数据。三大云服务提供商也没有动力减少云数据浪费。此外，服务提供商仅提供可在自己的平台上运行的工具，因此无法管理多个云服务提供商（AWS（亚马逊）、Azure（微软）和 GCP（谷歌））的排放。 Greenpixie 的方法提供了与技术无关的排放数据视图，使组织能够轻松了解其整个服务组合。