AWS to Share Carbon Data as Tech Giants Green the Cloud

Amazon.com Inc. is playing catch-up as tech giants compete to shed more light on the cloud’s carbon footprint, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The big three global cloud-computing providers—Amazon Web Services, Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure—are starting to vie for clients that want to measure and reduce their emissions, said David Mytton, a sustainable-computing researcher at Imperial College London, adding that until recently, there has been “very limited transparency” on cloud providers’ carbon footprints with Amazon being “quite far behind.”

Read the full report: The Wall Street Journal

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.