Each request consumes electricity. The energy consumption of cloud service providers is therefore becoming a matter of public interest.
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Dusseldorf Whether it’s uploading photos to Dropbox, calling a friend on Skype, or watching a movie on Netflix, with every online activity, companies’ data centers consume electricity and generate a few grams of carbon emissions.
It’s coming together: According to an analysis by the market researcher Synergy, the large cloud providers, known as hyperscalers, will operate a thousand data centers worldwide in 2024 – twice as many as in 2020. Electricity consumption increases with the locations.
Customers, consumers and companies, do not know how high the emissions are; researchers can only estimate them roughly. However, the cloud service providers promise to improve – and in future want to provide customers with a climate balance sheet in addition to the invoice.
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