– AI-powered dashboard designed to provide customers with access to standards-based greenhouse gas emissions data and help manage their carbon footprint in the cloud
– e.tres, e-commerce platform provider, leverages IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator to improve operations sustainability performance and transform the digital shopping experiencel
IBM (NYSE:IBM) today launched a new tool to help companies track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cloud services and improve their sustainability performance across their hybrid and multicloud journeys. Now available to everyone, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator – an AI-informed dashboard – can help clients access emissions data across a variety of IBM Cloud workloads such as AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and financial services .
Across all industries, enterprises are embracing modernization by leveraging hybrid cloud and AI for digital transformation with resiliency, performance, security and compliance at the forefront, while delivering value and driving business practices further. sustainable .
according to a recent study from IBM, 42% of CEOs name environmental sustainability as their top challenge over the next three years¹. At the same time, the study reports that CEOs are being pressured to embrace generative AI, while analyzing data management needs to make AI successful.
IBM's new tool is designed to quickly identify patterns, anomalies and outliers in data potentially associated with higher GHG emissions
The increase in data processing required for AI workloads can present new challenges for organizations looking to reduce their GHG emissions. With more than 43% of CEOs surveyed already using generative AI to inform strategic decisions with information, companies must prepare to balance running high-performance workloads with sustainability.
To help clients respond to these challenges, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is designed to quickly identify patterns, anomalies and outliers in data potentially associated with higher GHG emissions. Based on technology from IBM Research and through a collaboration with Intel, the tool uses machine learning and advanced algorithms to help organizations uncover emissions hotspots in their IT workload and provide insights to inform their strategy. of emission mitigation.
“As part of any AI transformation roadmap, companies must consider how to manage data growth in the cloud and on-premises environments. This is especially critical today as we see organizations face increasing pressure from investors, regulators and customers to reduce their carbon footprint,” reports Alan Peacock, General Manager, IBM Cloud. “For IBM, reducing our environmental impact to help create a more sustainable future is a top priority, and we are committed to helping clients achieve both sustainability and business goals.” With the AI-enabled IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, we are helping customers better understand the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their IT workloads and providing them with the insights to adjust their strategies and advance their sustainability goals.”
Customers are already using IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator to address their sustainability goals. This includes e.tres, an Argentinian e-commerce platform, which is using the dashboard to measure greenhouse gas emissions.
“The way people shop is changing and we are committed to helping our customers deliver frictionless online shopping experiences supported by high levels of sustainability. As we help our customers power their digital business with our innovative eCommerce platform, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, with our e3Eco solution. With AI-enabled IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, we can increase the sustainability of our customers' operations, their technology and logistics shipments, so that any e-commerce portal can become sustainable by measuring and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. said Diego Gorischnik, CEO of e.tres
IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is designed to provide customers with access to standards-based GHG emissions data for IBM Cloud workloads in just a few clicks. Its capabilities include:
- Track emissions across multiple workloads down to the cloud service tier for enterprise accounts: Helping provide access to detailed GHG emissions data for their workloads on the IBM Cloud, the tool is designed for customers to visualize and track GHG emissions associated with individual cloud services and locations, according to Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Customers can use filters to view emissions profiles across multiple locations and a variety of services – starting with cloud-native infrastructure services and commonly used classics, with more service coverage planned on a quarterly basis.
- Identify hotspots of GHG emissions and opportunities for improvement: Customers can analyze emissions by month, quarter and year, allowing companies to have a constant view of progress towards meeting targets. Having access to emission trends and patterns helps uncover anomalies and pain points, and customers can use the insights gained to adjust their strategies in near real-time to optimize workloads at sites and thereby help reduce emissions.
- Leverage data for GHG emission reporting: customers can access result and audit trails generated by the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator to help meet their reporting needs. Additionally, companies can integrate their emissions data into the IBM Envizi ESG Suite, which can help enhance their ability to perform additional analysis and reporting.
The availability of the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is a further milestone in our commitment to helping clients turn sustainability ambition into action and create a more energy-efficient future. It complements IBM's portfolio of sustainability solutions and consulting expertise, including IBM Envizi ESG Suite, IBM Turbonomic, IBM Planning Analytics and IBM LinuxONE, which help companies define, implement and achieve their environmental sustainability goals.
Building on IBM and Intel's deep commitment to helping enterprises overcome their unique business challenges and prioritize their compute performance resources, IBM Cloud was among the first cloud providers to deliver the most sustainable data center processors in the world. Intel: 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, earlier this year. With energy-efficient innovations designed to deliver superior performance, 4th generation Intel Xeon processors can help IBM Cloud customers reduce GHG emissions associated with computing and have performance tracked through the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator dashboard.
As enterprises embrace hybrid cloud, IBM Cloud and IBM Research plan to continue their close collaboration and work with their partners, such as Intel, to execute programs and activities aimed at helping customers reduce computing-related GHG emissions and increase energy efficiency.
Statements about IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
1 IBM Institute for Business Value, “CEO decision-making in the age of AI – ACT with intention”, June 2023
