Tips from IDC to improve the environmental sustainability of your IT workloads

This article discusses tips from a report by IDC on improving the environmental sustainability of IT workloads by leveraging public cloud computing.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Public cloud data centers are significantly more energy and carbon efficient than enterprise data centers, with the gap expected to widen further in the coming years.
• Key factors driving the carbon efficiency of public cloud data centers, including use of carbon-free energy sources, more efficient hardware and facilities, improved utilization, and energy-efficient silicon.
• Public cloud data centers result in lower embodied carbon emissions compared to enterprise data centers.
• Running generative AI workloads in public cloud data centers is more energy and carbon efficient due to the ability to locate training in areas with low-carbon energy sources.
• Recommendations for enterprises to assess their current footprint, select the right public cloud provider, consider data center locations, and use CloudOps tools and best practices to improve sustainability.