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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. This is extremely efficient, and I can be sure I’m putting solar power in my car, and doing it at a time when the grid might be curtailed. But you want to *do something* to help sooner.

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