When will regulators get serious on datacenter emissions reporting?

Efforts to regulate datacenters are starting to stack up. Over the past year we've seen an uptick in efforts to rein in datacenter emissions, water consumption, or simply standardize reporting. But, despite major cloud providers and hyperscalers' sincerest net-zero commitments, legislators want more transparency and even fines …

[Anonymous Coward]

‘Climate Emergency’ is Fabricated Alarmism Holding Poor Back

There's so much meddling with the statistics and the ground based temperature data sets, it's hard to know how much of an emergency it really is.

If you look at the satellite temperature data, there is a gradual increase, but nothing to panic about in this century and certainly no "emergency", so we could just build nuclear for now while we transition to better forms of energy in the coming decades.

And I should remind you that El Reg used to agree with this stance.

[Headley_Grange]

https://xkcd.com/1732/

[pdh]

How to lie with statistics

Much depends on how you choose the starting point for your temperature graph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/media/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:Phanerozoic_Climate_Change.png

[Anonymous Coward]

‘Climate Emergency’ is Fabricated Alarmism Holding Poor Back

Strange how rich people making piles of cash while exploiting the planet and it's people, always claim to be concerned for the poor. However they never use that money to help those poor people rise out of poverty, they spend it on themselves or invest it to make more money than they could ever spend.

[Marty McFly]

I still want to see the data comparing....

1) Emissions from an AWS data center

2) Emissions from an Amazon 767 hauling cargo

My gut check says the global AWS data centers pale in comparison to Amazon's fleet of 767 cargo aircraft. It seems illogical to go after the smaller of the two. Unless there is a different political agenda afoot.

[hoola]

Re: I still want to see the data comparing....

Both are as bad as each other, it is just easier to greenwash the datacentre but ultimately it is probably having just as much impact, if not worse end to end.

IT is a bottomless pit of waste. Nothing to do with IT is green. There can be benefits however the balance of benefit to environmental impact is skewed in favour of those organisations that benefit from running the datacentres and services. Ultimately profit.