Cloud Computing Carbon Reduction

科技行业（包括电子、软件、计算机和人工智能）的排放量约占全球排放量的4%；与全球航空业相当。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著增加的一个关键因素，数据中心的用电量占爱尔兰发电量的11%。包括伦敦北部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条例（SFDR）和英国的可持续披露条例（SDR）将于2023/24年生效，并要求大型组织报告其范围3的碳足迹。这打开了一个巨大的市场，潜在价值440亿英镑，如果组织能够充分利用他们的数据，就有可能大幅减少排放。预计美国和其他大型经济体将在几年内进入该市场。Greenpixie是一家总部位于英国的技术公司，通过提供细粒度数据输出的新颖创新方法，向多个行业提供有关云计算使用情况的可持续性数据。这支持增强业务决策。目前的数字服务温室气体排放方法依赖于服务提供商提供的工具，然而，这些工具往往不能提供足够深入或粒度的数据。三大云服务提供商也没有减少云数据浪费的动力。此外，服务提供商只提供在自己的平台上运行的工具，这使得跨多个云服务提供商（AWS（亚马逊）、Azure（微软）和GCP（b谷歌））管理排放变得不可能。Greenpixie的方法提供了一种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。

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.