Sustainability
Shared responsibility
As a software company we employ hardware such as servers which require significant amounts of electricity and cooling. This physical infrastructure is maintained within AWS data centers that support our efforts towards sustainability:
- A stated goal of 100% renewable energy by 2025 and in 2021 joined the Climate Neutral Data Center pact
- 274 global renewable energy projects (solar and wind) to support it's infrastructure.
- Data centres currently 3.6 times more energy efficient than the median enterprise data center.
- Purchase and retirement of environmental attributes, like Renewable Energy Credits and Guarantees of Origin, to cover any non-renewable energy.
- Water stewardship initiatives include evaporative cooling and recycling of non-potable water.
Using the fewest number of resources possible and using them to their fullest capacity ensures we have the lowest possible impact on the environment. Here are some of the ways we strive for Energy Proportionate Computing:
- Efficient coding techniques using state of the art functional code. Less code = less processing overhead.
- Auto scaling servers to ensure workload automatically scales up and down based on demand.
- Reduce unused storage volumes and log files through right sizing or deleting unused resources.
- Employ data compression techniques and large data packets to decrease network processing overhead.
In early 2022, we anticipate being able to calculate our carbon footprint using the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool.