Reduce your digital carbon thumbprint.

The digital industry is responsible for up to 4% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. That’s a larger percentage than commercial aviation. A single data center is capable of consuming the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes, according to research from MIT. Meanwhile, Greenpeace has suggested that if the cloud were a country, it would be the sixth biggest consumer of electricity on the planet, after Russia and before Germany. On these measures, any belief that cloud computing is not a contributor to environmental damage must be taken with a pinch of salt. At the same time, we’re already on an important technological path toward ubiquitous cloud computing, and this brings incredible long-term benefits too. These include greater scalability, improved data storage, and quicker application deployment, to name a few.

By Davide Bianchi, senior technical lead at Mia Platform.