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How Cloud Contracts Now Mandate Carbon-Aware Data Placement
Episode 59 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into the newest clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: carbon-aware data placement. Lucas and Luna unpack how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now contractually committing to store customer data in regions where the grid is greenest at that moment — and what that means for latency, compliance, and cost. They walk through a concrete example: a multinational retailer whose contract with Azure guarantees that batch analytics workloads run in regions where the real-time carbon intensity falls below a 250 gCO2eq/kWh threshold. The hosts explain how…
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