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Altered carbon avoidance: data centers move green goalposts
- Thursday | 8th August, 2019
Estimates vary, but in 2017, data centers were generally credited for consuming about 3% of the world’s electricity and generating 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions (equivalent to the airline industry). By 2025, according to one study, data centers could account for up to 20% of global energy consumption, with a carbon footprint of over 5% of GHGs. “Our usage of digital infrastructure have gone up enormously, so the total amount of carbon associated with that has gone up. data centers using its virtualization software), and estimates that in the last 15 years it’s managed to avoid generating between 340 million and 350 million metric tons of CO2. Carbon avoidanceO’Farrell adds that VMWare is actively helping its customers think in terms of carbon avoidance with a “carbon avoidance meter” tool launched in May that looks at data from VMWare infrastructure to make smarter decisions about energy usage.
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