MELANIE NAKAGAWA
DATA CENTRES
MELANIE NAKAGAWA
TITLE : CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER
COMPANY : MICROSOFT INDUSTRY : TECHNOLOGY LOCATION : UNITED STATES
Known for her roles under President
Joe Biden as the Specialist Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Climate and Energy , Nakagawa is also the second ever Chief Sustainability Officer for Microsoft : a role she commenced in 2022 .
operators and critical to reducing IT-related carbon emissions .
“ While essentially all cloud providers have sustainability initiatives in place , their progress in meeting carbon reduction goals and strategies for achieving net zero carbon emissions varies wildly ,” said Anderson . “ Sustainability metrics and workload placement tools are still immature and not always transparent , making it difficult for organisations to fully and accurately assess true sustainability impacts of their cloud usage today .”
Here , Data Centre Magazine highlights the top three cloud providers globally – AWS , Microsoft and Google – and explores their sustainability strategies .
The hyperscalers : AWS is leading the charge AWS is the world ’ s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering , with millions of global users depending on it every day . The company is designing data centres that provide the efficient , resilient service its customers expect while minimising its environmental footprint . The world ’ s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy , Amazon
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