Microsoft’s CSO shares how data can help your business reduce resource usage, record your environmental footprint, and report to stakeholders.
Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its Sixth Assessment Report with a warning to not exceed their 1.5C benchmark. To achieve this, we need to stabilise our climate by building a net zero carbon economy. It’s crucial to identify opportunities to replace your tools, systems, and activities with more efficient options. By using cloud solutions, you can cut energy consumption and costs while reducing the physical footprint of your datacenters. Many see digitalisation as an important way to help organisations adapt and grow in this market.
At the same time, 62 percent of organisations say rising energy bills are a driving factor behind increasing costs. The cloud is one of the key resources capable of helping organisations achieve greater efficiency and enabling technological advances, all while reducing costs. It will also help organisations meet their own sustainability goals
Two years ago, Microsoft pledged to become carbon negative, wa