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Why Cloud Contracts Now Penalize Carbon Inefficiency
Episode 81 of The Cloud Business Podcast drills into a new contract clause that is quietly reshaping enterprise cloud deals: carbon inefficiency penalties. Lucas and Luna unpack how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now writing financial penalties into contracts if customers run workloads on carbon-intensive data centers. They trace the shift to the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and Google's 2024 carbon-free energy goal, using real numbers from a 2025 Gartner study showing 30% of large contracts now include these fees. The hosts debate whether the penalties are genuine climate…
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