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Energy Efficiency
Reducing our energy usage helps lower our emissions and overall footprint. That’s why we require all our global offices, both leased and owned, to track and report our consumption.
As part of our energy efficiency initiatives, we’ve installed LED lighting, utility meters, and automatic sensors. We’re proud to have reduced our energy consumption by 2,145 MWh since 2018 through these operational upgrades, which is equivalent to 276 homes’ electricity use for the year. In 2020, like many companies, we experienced large energy reductions from office closures, diminishing our energy use by 51,794 MWh.
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IMPACT SPOTLIGHT
Energy Efficiency through Cloud Computing
We are in the midst of a multi-year phased project to migrate products, data storage, and functionality to the cloud to significantly increase the utilization of our data.
Making this massive migration will make our server utilization rate 3.6x more efficient, saving costs and lowering emissions associated with our data management systems. Our data centers operate on a 50% renewable energy mix. The combined effect of these initiatives has resulted in a u69% reduction in carbon emissions associated with data centers. We are in the process of conducting a further audit on the next cycle of reductions from this migration.
57%
REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF SERVERS WE USE
AS OF JANUARY 2021
29%
INCREASED ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURED IN POWER USAGE EFFECTIVENESS (PUE)
