Articles on cloud carbon emissions, AI sustainability, and green software.
How Tailpipe and Common Crawl are Tracking and Reducing Web Crawl Carbon Emissions: At the start of 2025, Tailpipe and Common Crawl teamed up to measure the carbon emissions generated by Common Crawl’s frequent internet-wide web crawl.
Cloud computing services based in a data center in India can produce almost 10 times more emissions than the same services in a data center in Switzerland. Understanding carbon intensity and data center location is key to managing cloud carbon emissions.
The seven greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are measured under a single unit: CO2e, or 'carbon dioxide equivalent'.
Carbon emissions from cloud computing are likely to be up to eight times higher than data center operators claim.
In 2025, many organizations will have to start reporting their cloud computing carbon emissions for the first time.
Service providers' cloud carbon calculators are often limited in their ability to measure the actual carbon emissions from cloud computing.
To reduce your cloud spend and carbon emissions, Tailpipe suggests tailored recommendations based on your organization’s cloud usage.
Across the month of September 2024, Tailpipe’s own use of cloud computing produced 8.31 kgCO2e of emissions, of which 1.82 kgCO2e were embodied emissions, and 6.49 kgCO2e were operational emissions. That’s the equivalent of driving 33 miles (53 km) in a typical petrol car.
The hardware that facilitates cloud computing generates CO2 emissions when it is powered by fossil fuel electricity sources.
