Cloud computing is fast becoming the go-to solution for commercial, enterprise, and government entities with large databases. It enables data collection, analysis, and storage in shared data centers and is accessed through a multitude of web-enabled services. Data can be processed online, anytime, and everywhere.
The International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasted that cloud computing will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. It has the potential to prevent more than one billion metric tons of CO2 from 2021 through 2024.
” Migrations to the cloud can reduce CO2 emissions by 59 million tons per year which equates to taking 22 million cars off the road.”
“Companies using cloud computing reduce the amount of carbon released into the air by 88%. They’re also using 77% fewer servers and 84% less power.”
Commercial cloud services in general can operate with much greater IT operational efficiency than smaller, on-premises deployments. Through dynamic provisioning and multitenancy cloud service provider manages capacity efficiency better to avoid overprovisioning and demand prediction for continuous capacity adjustment.
Cloud computing providers strong financial incentive to optimize IT efficiency, tailoring hardware components to the specific needs of the services so equipment runs leaner with a higher ratio of input energy going towards providing useful output than in traditional enterprise deployments. The results of the study suggest that more specialized, efficient IT equipment can reduce electricity consumption by at least 10 percent.
Advanced infrastructure technologies in hyperscale datacenters reduce electricity requirements for overhead tasks such as lighting, cooling, and power conditioning. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) – the ratio of overall electricity consumption at the datacenter facility to the electricity delivered to the IT hardware – is a common measure of efficiency in datacenters. Hyperscale data centers achieve better PUEs than typical enterprise datacenters.
The cloud unlocks potential large-scale purchases of green power that bring substantial renewable energy into the grid. This is otherwise unviable for distributed electricity demand from on-premises datacenters.
The Cloud Computing environment provides companies savings on resources, increased efficiency, better security, and now an opportunity to do better for the earth by reducing carbon emissions.
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