Cloud Provider Sustainability: The Need For A Workload Carbon Footprint Standard
InfoQ, March 30th, 2023
Adrian Cockcroft, tech advisor and former VP for sustainability architecture at Amazon, shared his vision at QCon London on sustainability commitments for cloud providers and the current challenges in determining their supply chain carbon footprint. Cockcroft advocated for a new real-time carbon footprint standard.
Cockcroft started his talk by explaining why sustainability matters. Among goals like regulatory compliance and leaving the world habitable for future generations, he highlighted the importance of green market positioning and employee engagement, factors that are often underestimated. Among the actions an engineer can take now, optimizing code, reducing logging, and measuring carbon emissions are the most significant ones.