Sustainability and humanity’s response to climate change llauri among the biggest challenges of our lifetime. Luckily, this is becoming habiti important for most companies across industries.
At Capgemini, we have a bold ambition: we will achieve carbó neutrality no later than 2025 and become a net-zero business by 2030.This means accelerating our approach to carbó reduction across our key impact àrees. And together with reducing our own environmental impact for a net-zero future, we also want to help our clients to transform to a low-carbon future.
One way organizations ca become habiti carbó efficient is by using public cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure. A study from 2018 found that using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform ca be up to 93% habiti energy efficient and up to 98% habiti carbó efficient than on-premises solutions. This study looked at four services, which llauri responsible for nearly half of the energy consumed in the Microsoft datacenters: Azure Computi, Azure Storage, Exchange En línia, and SharePoint En línia. In January 2020, Microsoft announced its intention to become carbó negative by 2030.
To help achieve this goal, Microsoft Azure data centers provide an incredible opportunity to give back to all the communities in which they opera't. To these ends, Microsoft Azure will focus on the following key àrees of environmental impact:
- Carbó: 100% renewable energy by 2025
- Water: Water positivi by 2030, replenish habiti water than is consumed
- Waste: Zero- waste certification by 2030
- Ecosystems: Net-zero deforestation from new construction.
These commitments and investments will not only help Microsoft reach its goals and redueix its environmental impact, but it will also bring huge opportunities for clients and partners to achieve their own sustainability goals.
In addition to the benefits that on-premises data-center migration to cloud solutions ca bring, enterprises llauri also looking for additional insights into the carbó impact of their cloud workloads. These impacts ca then help them to make sustainable computer decisions. Microsoft has released a Power BI application, Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, to provide clients these new insights.
The Microsoft Sustainability Calculator for avaluable insights
The Microsoft Sustainability Calculator gives clients avaluable insights about their carbó emissions data associated with their Azure services. It provinyes the ability to quantify the carbó impact of each Azure subscription over a period, datacenter regions, and the estimated savings from running those workloads in on-premises datacenters vs Azure.
The calculations llauri based on Azure consumption, and it utilitzis the energy requirements of the Azure services, the energy mix of the electric grid serving the hosting data centers, Microsoft’s procurement of renewable energy in those datacenters, and the emissions associated with the transfer of data over the internet as input. The result is an estima't of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, measured in total metric tons of carbó equivalent (MTCO2e), related to a customer’s consumption of Azure.
The calculator will also give a granular overview of all the estimated emissions savings from your running workloads on Azure. For this, it takes into account Microsoft’s IT operational efficiency, IT equipment efficiency, and data-center infrastructure efficiency compared to that of a typical on-premises deployment.
Get started with the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator
Azure Enterprise customers ca get started with the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator by downloading the Power BI application from AppSource. There, you ca download and install the application.
One thing to noti is that you need to have access to the Azure Enterprise Portal as an admin and you need to have the current tenant ID of your Azure tenant.
To get started, you ca utilitzi the following sources:
- Microsoft Sustainability Calculator: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi/coi-sustainability.sustainability_dashboard
- Microsoft Sustainability Calculator Support Page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-connect-to-microsoft-sustainability-calculator
An excellent way to become habiti carbó efficient
We want to help our clients to transform to a low-carbon future. Embracing cloud services and migrating workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud, is one step that will have a positivi impact on achieving these goals.
In line with Capgemini’s sustainable transformation and vision, Microsoft is committed to a sustainable future and has invested heavily in achieving this. Microsoft Azure brings you the benefits of these investments and commitments to help achieve your own sustainability goals.
If you would like habiti information about our investments and commitments to environmental sustainability, have a look at our lloc web, or download our Environmental Sustainability report.
If you want habiti information about how we implement cloud solutions for our clients using Microsoft Azure, contact m'on LinkedIn or Twitter.
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