Sustainability at Mirantis
According to the non-profit Shift Project, cloud computing accounts for between 2.7 and 3.7% of global CO2 emissions—more than commercial aviation. It’s essential for organizations to implement controls on cloud-driven energy consumption—and many face rising pressure to do so from investors and regulators alike.
It’s not just infrastructure that drives up emissions. A recent study on container usage shows that almost 70% of CPU resources requested by containers are never used, contributing to an estimated $10 million in cumulative overprovisioning—and energy waste.
A comprehensive approach to sustainable cloud usage means organizations need both a careful approach to infrastructure and strategies to optimize their applications.
Mirantis is committed to environmental responsibility and has taken concrete steps to understand and reduce the environmental impact of our own operations. We partnered with Greenly, a global B-Corp-certified carbon management platform, to complete a comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report covering our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. Based on this assessment, we earned a Bronze rating, placing us among the top 30% of companies evaluated for climate strategy. In alignment with the Paris Agreement, we have set a goal to reduce our company-wide emissions by 30% by 2030 and will continue to monitor our progress through annual evaluations to ensure accountability and improvement.
If you have the ability to easily move workloads from one cluster to another, you also have the ability to move clusters based on environmental footprint.
Florent Carré, Cloud Infrastructure Specialist at Société Générale