Reduce Cloud Emissions. Improve Financials.
Modern data centers and cloud workloads are a growing source of global carbon emissions, and the way your company uses AWS directly influences that footprint. This page connects environmental impact, financial performance, and practical optimization steps.
Data centers and your company’s carbon impact
Peer‑reviewed and industry research shows that rapidly growing data centers and cloud services are a significant contributor to global electricity use and related CO₂ emissions, especially as AI and cloud adoption accelerate (International Energy Agency, 2024; de Vries‑Gao, 2025; US data‑centre environmental burden studies, 2024).
Studies highlight that data centers now account for a notable share of global energy demand
and emissions, with growth driven by cloud computing and AI workloads. This means your
company’s cloud decisions—regions, architectures, and utilization—have real environmental
consequences.
Sources: International Energy Agency (2024, Energy and AI – Analysis);
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2024, US Data Center Energy Usage Report);
recent peer‑reviewed data‑centre footprint studies.
Is your company contributing more to data‑center carbon emissions than it needs to?
Lower emissions, stronger financial performance
Empirical evidence shows that companies which actively reduce their carbon emissions tend to report better financial outcomes—specifically higher ROA and ROE—especially when they start from carbon‑intensive operations (Ibishova, Misund & Tveterås, 2024).
Get a feel for your cloud’s footprint
Use this illustrative calculator to connect your monthly cloud spend, typical regions, and optimization level to an approximate annual CO₂ figure. It is deliberately simplified and meant to help you feel the scale—not to provide audit‑grade numbers.
This calculator uses simplified assumptions: it treats spend as a proxy for energy use, applies rough grid carbon intensity bands, and models optimization as a potential reduction factor. It is not a formal ESG or regulatory reporting tool.