Moving from a private traditional data center to a public cloud can significantly reduce CO2 emissions.

The savings can come from two main aspects: a more energy efficient compute platform and a reduced application landscape, which requires less compute power to operate. This short article details how a move to the cloud can help with reducing CO2.

The savings can come from two main aspects: a more energy efficient compute platform and a reduced application landscape, which requires less compute power to operate. As an example, by moving to a public cloud platform Mercedes-Benz managed to save 50% CO2 for its backend service. In another example a large chemical manufacturer moved its application from an existing data center to a public cloud provider, saving almost 60% CO2.

This short article details how a move to the cloud can help with reducing CO2.

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