Helping build a green Internet
Jul 27, 2021Matthew Prince

Summary
This post details Cloudflare's initiatives to reduce its environmental impact. It highlights the company's accidental environmental friendliness by design due to its focus on efficiency and proximity to users. It announces four major initiatives: commitment to carbon neutrality by 2022 with 100% renewable energy and historical carbon offsets, ramping up deployment of hyper-efficient Arm-based servers, releasing a 'Green Workers' option for Workers and Pages to run workloads in energy-efficient data centers, and working with search/crawl companies on an open standard to minimize redundant crawl traffic.
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