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How using cloud technology can help your organization meet sustainability goals

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We lead this drive with the following aims: Match all of our electricity used in our operations with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of our original 2030 target. AWS will become water positive by 2030 , returning more water to communities than we use in our direct operations. million European homes.

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Healthy people, healthy planet: Supporting sustainability in healthcare with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

This will rise to 96% as Amazon drives toward being powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025. AWS is already well on the path to becoming water positive by 2030. Studies by 451 Research found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) can lower customers’ IT workload carbon footprint by nearly 80% compared to surveyed enterprise data centers.

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Helping governments and businesses pioneer sustainability initiatives: Top takeaways from the AWS Sustainability Conference

AWS Public Sector Blog

Businesses could potentially reduce carbon emissions of an average workload by up to 96% when AWS reaches its goal of purchasing 100% of its energy from renewable sources, which we are on the path to do by 2025 – five years ahead of our goal.” Scope, scale and speed in sustainability is shocking but it is a massive opportunity.”

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Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety

AWS Public Sector Blog

To achieve its goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injury collisions on city streets by 2030, the Bellevue City Council developed and approved the Safe System approach. Supporting safe mobility for VRUs is critical as these neighborhoods prepare for 30,000 new jobs and 27,000 new residents by 2025.

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Powering the generative AI era: What you missed at the AWS Public Sector Symposium Brussels

AWS Public Sector Blog

Amazon has a goal to reach net-zero by 2040 and is on a path to match all of our global electricity use, including AWS data centers, with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025 – five years ahead of our original 2030 target. AWS is on track to be water positive by 2030 through water replenishment projects, with a current rate of 3.9

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Highlights from the 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2019, Amazon set a goal to match all of the electricity used across it global operation with 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. In December 2020, AWS pledged to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing training to 29 million people worldwide by 2025.

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Higher education institutions broaden learning opportunities with AWS Professional Services

AWS Public Sector Blog

With a nationwide decrease in the number of students ages 18-22 enrolling in postsecondary education—known as the enrollment cliff—expected as early as 2025, the UNC System is addressing an increasing need for learning opportunities that enable students who cannot or do not wish to take classes in a traditional on-campus environment.

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