Tech giant IBM has introduced the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, a new solution designed to assist organizations in monitoring and dealing with the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their IBM Cloud operations. This development comes as businesses seek to balance the increased utilization of energy-intensive workloads such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning with the growing requirements for emissions reporting and adherence to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations. IBM’s advanced solution utilizes artificial intelligence to provide users with a dashboard that enables them to track and analyze emissions over time, including monthly, quarterly, and yearly assessments, based on location, cloud service, and organizational workstreams. The tool allows for the identification of emission hotspots, anomalies, and outliers, providing valuable insights for implementing emissions reduction strategies. Moreover, the Cloud Carbon Calculator can assist in meeting sustainability reporting requirements by integrating data into IBM’s Envizi ESG Suite.
In a post announcing the new solution, Satinder Sethi, GM, IBM Cloud Infrastructure Services, said:
“As we see businesses continue to embrace hybrid cloud to achieve operational efficiency and energy-saving benefits, we believe cloud and data center energy efficiency will continue to grow in importance. Today, many businesses are tracking energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions across various IT infrastructures to address sustainability goals. However, 41% of executives surveyed in a recent Institute for Business Value study point to inadequate data as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress.”
