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> Reduce Compute Emissions to Zero By moving compute from a self managed data center or colocation facility to GCP, the emissions directly associated with your company’s compute and data storage will be zero.

So basically, you are still contributing to emissions, just not directly. Still, it is nice to see this problem addressed by Google. Does anyone know of a similar promise to use renewable resources by AWS?



Yeah, AWS has five regions that are classified as carbon neutral, listed near the bottom of this page: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/


> So basically, you are still contributing to emissions, just not directly.

I'm not quite understanding your point. They're just contracting exclusively with wind farms and solar energy. Is there a point I'm not seeing here? Sure, you might be burning non-renewable sources for your dev offices, but they have no control over that.




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