We need to shift our focus to embodied carbon and start measuring the footprints of the journey, not just the destination.

Data centers help enable the online applications that people depend on for work, entertainment, and communications, but they require significant power to move information around the world.

A new report from Host in Ireland, in association with Bitpower, projects that due to the decarbonization of the electricity grid and renewable first purchasing policies of the Irish data center industry, data center CO2 will level off at about 2.2% of Ireland’s total emissions by 2025.