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If we’re being honest, the “green issue” currently isn’t the priority it needs to be for a lot of companies. At best, they are ticking the box marked ‘sustainability’ and paying lip service to a trendy topic. At worst, they are engaging in nothing more than greenwashing.

Considering carbon emissions from cloud computing have now overtaken those from commercial aviation, this is disheartening for the IT sector. Unsurprisingly, most of these emissions come from inefficient use of the cloud due to overly complex processes and a lack of centralized oversight over cloud infrastructures. And if “emissions” sounds a bit vague, here’s a translation into dollars–$147 billion was wasted in 2022 in cloud spend.

So, when it comes to reducing an organization’s cloud carbon footprint, there is clearly a financial incentive. Even for those who don’t believe in individual responsibility or worse, simply don’t care what kind of world we’ll leave future (and some present) humans to live in, there is money to be saved.

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