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IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator to help businesses track greenhouse gas emissions

The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator has just been launched in Africa and will help businesses get data about the amount of greenhouse gas they emit whenever they use hybrid cloud and AI.

The tool accesses data from IBM Cloud workloads including high performance computing (HPC), financial services and AI.

The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator spots patterns, anomalies and outliers in any data associated with higher GHG emissions within IT workloads.

The AI driven dashboard tool then provides insights and strategy into how the business can mitigate these emissions.

According to IBM, businesses can continue delivering value and driving sustainability using the tool even as they modernize and increase their IT use in pursuit of great performance, resilience and security.

As African organizations race to optimize workloads and achieve energy-savings benefits through hybrid, multicloud and AI deployment, it is expedient that we provide access to standards-based greenhouse gas emissions data that will enable them to manage their cloud carbon footprint. This is especially important in Africa as we remain vulnerable to climate change and climate variability. As such, we are proud to launch the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, an AI-informed dashboard designed to help clients access the data they need to advance their sustainability goals while empowering them to conduct further analysis.

~ Julia Carvalho, General Manager of IBM Africa Growth Markets

One of the businesses already using the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is Argentinian e-commerce platform e.tres.

According to the company’s CEO Diego Gorischnik, the tool helps to achieve frictionless shopping experiences in digitally powered businesses.

The way people shop is changing, and we’re committed to helping our customers deliver frictionless online shopping experiences backed by high levels of sustainability. As we help our customers power their digital businesses with our innovative e-commerce platform, sustainability is at the center of everything we do, with our e3Eco solution. With the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator, enabled by AI, we can boost the sustainability of our clients’ operations, their technology and logistics shipments, so any ecommerce portal can become sustainable by measuring and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions.

~ Diego Gorischnik, CEO of e.tres
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