The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator Helps Businesses Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Achieve Sustainability Goals
Author: Satinder Sethi
To help clients on the road to building a more sustainable compute infrastructure, today we announced the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator – an AI-informed dashboard designed to give clients access to standards-based cloud emissions data for IBM Cloud workloads with just a few clicks – now in limited beta. Based on technology from IBM Research, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator aims to enable organizations to track their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across various workloads down to the cloud service level to help further advance their sustainability objectives.
As we see businesses continue to embrace hybrid cloud to achieve operational efficiency and energy-saving benefits, we believe cloud and data center energy efficiency will continue to grow in importance. Today, many businesses are tracking energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions across various IT infrastructures to address sustainability goals. However, 41% of executives surveyed in a recent Institute for Business Value study point to inadequate data as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress. [2]
With the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, we are aiming to make it easier for clients to access the data they need to advance their sustainably goals. By helping deliver access to detailed carbon emissions data for their workloads on IBM Cloud, the tool is designed for clients to visualize and track GHG emissions associated with individual cloud services and locations in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Many organizations have GHG emissions targets – including targets associated with their cloud usage. The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator includes features designed to help clients analyze GHG emissions by month, quar and year. Through a regular view of progress towards targets, we aim to help clients reduce emissions by delivering the insights they need to adjust their strategy based on emissions trends and patterns.