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Data centers use more than Britain's total electricity consumption. At 3% of the global electricity supply data centers have the same carbon footprint as the aviation industry. Unlike the aviation industry, the trajectory of data center deployment and consumption is upwards.

To limit global warming to 2015 Paris Accord levels, the world’s net emissions of greenhouse gases need to drop to zero by 2050. Thereafter, there will still be work to do to sustain net-negative emissions through the second half of the century. It will take many decades to fully decarbonize some sectors, likely longer than is currently anticipated. However, instead of waiting decades to steer the data center industry in the right direction, we should do it now.

Data-centric companies, and data centers in particular, contribute heavily to global CO2 emissions. As noted already, balancing and then reversing historical emissions will require billions of tons of net negative emissions up to and after 2050.

Climate change doesn’t affect everyone to the same degree. Within America and around the world, the poorest people are often most drastically impacted and it shows up in the following places, as examples:
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• Money pays for air conditioning
• Money pays for CO2 offsets and care needs
• Higher incomes allow people to live in safe places, away from swelling rivers and tinder-dry wooded areas
• Privilege fills grocery carts, even as food prices soar
• Wealthier federal budgets can compensate their citizens when climate change harms livelihoods
• Impoverished families are often the least to blame for man-made climate change, yet they typically bear the worst of the impact
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Furthermore, climate change is very likely going to amplify the already existing divide between the rich and poor. As global temperatures and sea levels rise, as the oceans acidify and precipitation patterns get rearranged, people living in poverty are the most severely impacted. Since climate change affects everything from where a person can live to their access to health care, millions of people could be plunged further into poverty as environmental conditions worsen. In this context, scaling the deployment of carbon reducing technologies and activities is central to keeping global warming at safe levels over the long term, which affects the impoverished in a beneficial way.

We, ultimately, want to do our part in business to help repair the climate issue. We reduce the typical CO2 emitted by a traditional data center by 40%. Each pod we deploy saves between 350-750t of carbon from being deployed each year. We use no water and we have an extremely low thermal footprint. We are working with environmental agencies and activists to garner their confidence and support.

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