Reduce your cloud carbon footprint — workload placement, provider selection, and architecture for sustainability.
Talk to a Green IT specialistCloud computing has a carbon footprint — and for most companies, it's growing 20-30% per year as workloads scale. Datacenters consume ~1% of global electricity, and that number is rising fast with AI workloads. Regulators (SEC, EU CSRD) are starting to require carbon disclosure, and customers are starting to ask about sustainability.
CB4UHost's Green IT service reduces your cloud carbon footprint through workload placement, provider selection, and architecture changes. We use PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) data from our Global Datacenter Efficiency Map to choose the greenest regions, schedule batch jobs during low-carbon hours, and architect for efficiency.
We're vendor-neutral. AWS, GCP, Azure, and regional providers all publish PUE and renewable energy data — we use it to recommend the greenest regions and providers for your workload. Sometimes the greenest choice is also the cheapest (Nordic regions with hydro power), sometimes it's a trade-off.
Every engagement ends with a carbon footprint baseline, a reduction roadmap, and ongoing monitoring so you can report progress to executives, customers, and regulators.
We measure your current cloud carbon footprint — by workload, region, and provider.
We analyze which workloads could move to greener regions/providers without performance impact.
We schedule batch jobs during low-carbon hours (when renewables are abundant on the grid).
We recommend architecture changes (right-sizing, spot, serverless) that reduce both cost and carbon.
Prioritized roadmap to reduce carbon footprint by 20-50% over 12-24 months.
Carbon dashboard + quarterly report for executives, customers, and regulators.
We measure your current carbon footprint using provider data + grid carbon intensity.
We analyze workload placement, scheduling, and architecture for carbon reduction.
We build a prioritized roadmap for carbon reduction.
We execute the roadmap — workload migration, scheduling changes, architecture optimization.
We set up carbon monitoring and quarterly reporting.
Interactive tools related to this service.
We use provider-published data (AWS Customer Carbon Footprint, Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard, GCP Carbon Footprint) combined with grid carbon intensity data (Electricity Maps, WattTime). We calculate per-workload emissions based on compute, storage, and network usage.
Nordic regions (Sweden, Finland, Norway) have the lowest carbon intensity due to hydro and wind power. Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) is also very green. Google's Hamina (Finland) datacenter has a PUE of 1.06 — among the best in the world. See our Datacenter Efficiency Map for details.
Yes, but it requires a combination of: (1) choosing green regions, (2) scheduling batch during low-carbon hours, (3) right-sizing to reduce consumption, and (4) purchasing high-quality carbon offsets for the residual. Most clients get to 50-80% reduction without offsets; offsets cover the rest.
Yes — SEC climate disclosure rules (effective 2024-2026) and EU CSRD (effective 2024-2028) require carbon reporting. Our carbon dashboard provides the data you need for these disclosures.
3- and 5-year total cost of ownership models across providers — including compute, storage, egress, support, and hidden costs sales reps leave out.
Design hybrid topologies that put latency-sensitive workloads on dedicated hardware and burstable workloads on cloud — with secure networking between them.
Reduce your cloud bill by 20-40% with right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances, and architecture changes — we share the savings.
Tell us about your project. We'll come back with a scoped proposal and a fixed-fee quote.
Talk to a Green IT specialist