Platform.sh sustainability lead Leah Goldfarb on looking for “impact at scale” in cloud decarbonisation
The trained climate scientist talks cutting cloud emissions and avoiding data centre graveyards in this CSO Futures interview.
After 20 years working as a climate scientist including at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Leah Goldfarb believes she can have a greater impact leading sustainability at cloud-based platform-as-a-service platform.sh.
“I wanted to have an impact at scale, and I thought the cloud would be the place to do it: in terms of technology it is scaling up so rapidly that if you find a way to decarbonize, not only could it have a big impact but you could really see the numbers change,” she tells CSO Futures.
