- The new Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard allows clients to advance their sustainability plans, obtaining a detailed view of the impact of their technological infrastructures and knowing what their reduction would be through the use of cloud services in Azure.
- It also allows customers to perform a detailed analysis of the services they have already deployed in the cloud, allowing usage to be optimized to achieve greater reductions and incorporate the data into their sustainability reports.
- The tool even makes it possible to calculate Scope 3* emissions, that is, the indirect and most difficult to measure emissions that occur throughout the product's value chain, from obtaining raw materials and manufacturing to transportation. , the use and disposal of hardware.
As technology forms the basis on which organizations orchestrate their business, analyzing its impact on the environment becomes a necessity. That's why today, Microsoft announced the launch of its Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard, a valuable tool that helps companies understand, track, analyze data and generate reports with the goal of reducing carbon emissions associated with the use of information. technology.
This scorecard highlights the company's commitment to addressing its own environmental impact and helping customers do the same by leveraging the benefits Microsoft Azure offers over on-premises solutions . which can achieve an improvement of up to 93% in energy efficiency and up to 98% in terms of carbon emissions.
The Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard is the evolution of the Sustainability Calculator that Microsoft unveiled in January 2020. This tool provides customers with transparency into the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the use of Microsoft cloud services, facilitating a better understanding of the causes of changes in emissions. Companies can thus measure the impact of using the Microsoft cloud on their environmental footprint, and can break down emissions by month, service and Data Center Cloud Region.
The tool also allows customers to make an estimate of the emissions that the loads they have deployed in Azure would entail if they had them on-premises, thus highlighting the emissions savings they have achieved due to having migrated the workloads to the Azure. Microsoft cloud. Additionally, new data protection options enable panel administrators to control access to information within their organization.
The main dashboard shows global emissions and usage over time, as well as emission intensity, which is a carbon efficiency metric specific to cloud use.
Greater visibility of the impact derived from the use of the cloud.
The company has strengthened the functions of the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard, especially in the calculation of Scope 3* emissions associated with cloud use. These emissions are indirect and occur throughout the product value chain, from obtaining raw materials and manufacturing to transportation, use and disposal of hardware.
The dashboard displays carbon emissions by scope and compares year-over-year, helping organizations track identified trends and make decisions about the use of their cloud services.
Scope 3 activities typically constitute the largest source of emissions for organizations and are also the most difficult for them to measure. Using Microsoft's third-party validated carbon measurement tool methodology, the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard provides a detailed view of the impact of cloud workloads. This allows organizations to produce more complete and accurate emissions reports, facilitating data-driven decision making to improve sustainability.
RELX, a global provider of data analysis tools, has been using the preview version of the Microsoft Emissions Impact Dashboard for the past six months. For RELX, sustainability is a priority and now the Microsoft tool has become one of the key components of its CO2.Hub, a solution based on Azure, which it has developed using Power BI to measure its scope 1, 2 and emissions. 3.
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