Sunnier skies ahead? Cloud giants dial down the greenwash

2024 cloud sustainability research reveals positive changes in some of the environmental data provided by big three cloud vendors.

Penny Horwood
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Sunnier skies ahead? Cloud giants dial down the greenwash

Hyperscale cloud service providers market their services on the basis that not only are they more cost-effective than the on-premise datacentres of old, but that this efficiency makes them greener ...

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