Tech giants urge transparency from data centre vendors amid AI-driven emissions rise
Embodied emissions from manufacturing and construction are estimated to make up 6.6% of data centres' Scope 3 footprint.
Tech behemoths including AWS, Google, Meta and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging data centre suppliers to disclose their embodied emissions as they struggle to contain the growing carbon footprint of their AI applications.
The Big Tech firms (all of which recently reported significant emissions rises as a result of data centre expansion to power their AI activities), along with Digital Realty and Schneider Electric, argue in a letter published this week that their ability to mitigate these emissions is hampered by the lack of availability of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) from vendors.
