Articles on cloud carbon emissions, AI sustainability, and green software practices.https://tailpipe.ai/en-gbhttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-much-carbon-does-the-cloud-produce-why-nobody-knows-what-theyre-talking-about-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-much-carbon-does-the-cloud-produce-why-nobody-knows-what-theyre-talking-about-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/Cloud computing powers over 90% of enterprises, but its impact on carbon remains a black box. While standards exist for manufacturing and logistics emissions, methods for calculating the carbon costs of the cloud are so inconsistent that the two most common approaches produce results differing by 50x. With regulators closing in, that ambiguity is becoming a liability.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/in-pursuit-of-the-sustainable-datacenter/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/in-pursuit-of-the-sustainable-datacenter/Global demand for cloud computing, driven in large part by the expansion of AI, is on an ever-increasing upward trajectory. Attempting to mitigate this expansion is the pursuit of the sustainable data center: facilities that can meet the world’s need for on-demand digital services whilst also being highly energy and water efficient, compatible with local environments, and emitting zero carbon.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/sci-ai-specification/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/sci-ai-specification/An overview of the Green Software Foundation's SCI-AI specification and how it standardises carbon measurement for AI and LLM workloads.Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/case-study-calculating-the-carbon-emissions-of-cameraforensics-cloud/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/case-study-calculating-the-carbon-emissions-of-cameraforensics-cloud/Camera Forensics, a digital imaging platform used by crime investigators, wanted to know the carbon impact of the cloud-intensive services. Read their blog to find out how we did it, and what we found.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/data-centers-a-necessary-evil/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/data-centers-a-necessary-evil/Data centers are as integral to modern life as running water or electric lights, but we are only just coming to terms with their enormous environmental impacts. If we cannot stop using data centers, how do we mitigate their impacts on the world we have to live in?Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/watts-up-gpu/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/watts-up-gpu/Tailpipe has built software for measuring the power draw of GPUs in cloud servers and is delighted to now make that software open source.Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/ai-energy-consumption/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/ai-energy-consumption/By 2030, datacenters are expected to consume 3% of global electricity consumption, driven by the exponential growth in AI usage. As the internet becomes increasingly over-saturated with AI content, we must consider: is the environmental cost worth the output?Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/carbon-aware-computing/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/carbon-aware-computing/How carbon-aware computing shifts workloads to times and places where the electricity grid is cleanest, reducing the carbon footprint of cloud infrastructure.Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/tailpipe-api/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/tailpipe-api/We’ve built Tailpipe to make it easy for organizations to measure and reduce the carbon emissions of their cloud computing workloads. Now, with the Tailpipe API, you can bring that same visibility and intelligence directly into your own tools, dashboards, and workflows.Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/measuring-the-carbon-cost-of-crawling-five-billion-web-pages/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/measuring-the-carbon-cost-of-crawling-five-billion-web-pages/How Tailpipe and Common Crawl are Tracking and Reducing Web Crawl Carbon Emissions: At the start of 2025, Tailpipe and Common Crawl teamed up to measure the carbon emissions generated by Common Crawl’s frequent internet-wide web crawl.Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/carbon-intensity/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/carbon-intensity/Cloud computing services based in a data center in India can produce almost 10 times more emissions than the same services in a data center in Switzerland. Understanding carbon intensity and data center location is key to managing cloud carbon emissions.Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/co2e-explained-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/co2e-explained-blog/The seven greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are measured under a single unit: CO2e, or 'carbon dioxide equivalent'.Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/the-true-scale-of-data-center-emissions-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/the-true-scale-of-data-center-emissions-blog/Carbon emissions from cloud computing are likely to be up to eight times higher than data center operators claim.Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/reporting-cloud-carbon-emissions-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/reporting-cloud-carbon-emissions-blog/In 2025, many organizations will have to start reporting their cloud computing carbon emissions for the first time.Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/cloud-carbon-calculators-the-pros-and-cons-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/cloud-carbon-calculators-the-pros-and-cons-blog/Service providers' cloud carbon calculators are often limited in their ability to measure the actual carbon emissions from cloud computing.Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-can-tailpipe-reduce-my-cloud-spend-and-carbon-emissions-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-can-tailpipe-reduce-my-cloud-spend-and-carbon-emissions-blog/To reduce your cloud spend and carbon emissions, Tailpipe suggests tailored recommendations based on your organization’s cloud usage.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/tailpipes-emissions-explained/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/tailpipes-emissions-explained/Across the month of September 2024, Tailpipe’s own use of cloud computing produced 8.31 kgCO2e of emissions, of which 1.82 kgCO2e were embodied emissions, and 6.49 kgCO2e were operational emissions. That’s the equivalent of driving 33 miles (53 km) in a typical petrol car.Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-does-cloud-computing-create-emissions-blog/https://tailpipe.ai/insights/how-does-cloud-computing-create-emissions-blog/The hardware that facilitates cloud computing generates CO2 emissions when it is powered by fossil fuel electricity sources.Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT