With legislation such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now in force, customers and resellers alike are expecting more detailed carbon emissions reporting across all three Scopes from suppliers and vendors, according to Canalys.
This expectation of transparency is increasingly important in vendor selection processes because customers need their vendors to share specific numbers to quantify the environmental impact of their cloud usage.
“AWS has continued to fall behind its competitors here by not providing Scope 3 emissions data via its Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, which is still unavailable,” Caddy claimed.>
“This issue has frustrated sustainability-focused customers and partners alike for years now, but as companies prepare for CSRD disclosure, this lack of granular emissions disclosure from AWS can create compliance challenges for EU-based AWS customers.”
We asked Amazon why it doesn’t break out the emissions data for AWS separately from its other operations, but while the company confirmed this is so, it declined to offer an explanation. Neither did Microsoft nor Google.
These companies operate as if they are above the law. Why would you try and hide the emissions data? Everyone know it is likely very large and growing rapidly, what is there to hide?
We have a lovely backup generator on site that turns on anytime an electrical storm is detected within 50km of our DC. That thing is something out of a cruiseship so yeah, I can imagine real huge data centers must be an order of magnitude worse.
No shit, 2025 is coming strong
