The sustainability benefits of cloud

One of the major ways using cloud services can reduce your carbon footprint, and your energy costs, is by reducing the number of on-premises servers you need to run, or getting rid of them altogether.

This doesn't simply shift your emissions elsewhere: According to Microsoft, cloud platforms can be up to 93% more energy efficient and up to 98% more carbon efficient than on-premises solutions.

Its not just the inherent efficiency of large datacentres, and the cutting-edge technology thats going into enhancing their sustainability even further, that makes cloud computing more sustainable than on-premises. It's also to do with the environmental policies of these global IT industry leaders. Most have set ambitious targets to use 100% renewable energy, to reduce waste, deforestation, water consumption and carbon emissions. As a result, you can be confident that your investment in cloud computing is one that'll only get greener over time.