These aren't companies which are eliminating all emissions and are instead using 'offsets', such as planting trees.
Data centres join record number of Australian businesses going c..
There was a 30pc jump in the number of businesses voluntarily receiving carbon neutral certification in 2018
The voluntary carbon neutral program is offsetting about 2.5m tonnes of CO2 each year
The government's mandatory offset mechanism accounted for less than 0.5m tonnes of CO2 in 2016-17
Australia's biggest operator of data centres, NextDC, received carbon neutral certification last year by eliminating or offsetting all the emissions associated with its own operations. But that did not include offsets for companies that use its servers to host information.
"Whether that's the photos that you store, traffic systems allowing the city to work, train systems, medical information — everything we do is increasingly dependent on servers that are 'in the cloud'. And those servers sit in data centres," said Simon Cooper, chief operating officer of NextDC.
The company ensures it uses as little electricity as possible to run and cool its own office operations, reduces the use of consumables like paper, and purchases federally approved offsets to cover the rest of its emissions.
NextDC is now preparing to offer any businesses using cloud services based in its data centres the option to be carbon neutral, too.
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