Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren't doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who are already under legislative pressure, to be more transparent about their own corporation's carbon footprint regarding compute services. Amazon has chosen not break out data on …
"Believe it if you like".
Is there any legal power robust enough to compel these companies to publish this information? And then prove it?
Because otherwise they'll only tell you what they think you want to hear.
As for the veracity of the current platitudes, they've obviously perfected Nuclear Fusion or harnessed a black hole - everything is up, exponentially in many cases, except the carbon produced.
30 years ago I flew out to Italy to start a new contract. To simplify travel arrangements the company had asked me to meet another couple of contractors at Stansted for the outbound flight. Being young and naive, over a quiet beer in departures I mentioned this was my first proper contract for the company, and had only been in that line of work for 6 weeks. This seemed to throw them off balance - after a brief pause the more talkative one muttered they'd been on the job around 6 months, and the conversation turned to the night shifts they had been on the previous week.
When we landed and met up with another crew (who had been working out there for a couple of months) I discovered my two new colleagues must have been abducted by aliens - for their 6 months experience pre-flight had matured into some 6 years on landing.
I think whoever writes climate PR for Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc must have also been on that flight.
CO2 is not the point. Its global warming that is the issue." If everyone achieved true "net zero" CO2 emissions, the world would not immediately cool down, but it would eventually stabilize at the current temperature and prevent further warming, as long as net-zero is maintained; however, it would take a very long time for the planet to significantly cool due to the long lifespan of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, meaning past emissions would still impact the climate for centuries to come." Google AI. Its too little too late guys. But dont give up. keep the band playing,rearrange the deck chairs and assure everybody that all is well.
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