The Climate and Cloudflare

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This post details Cloudflare's approach to sustainability and environmental impact, focusing on energy efficiency in its network and platform. It highlights how caching reduces energy consumption by minimizing data transfer and origin server load. It also explains how Cloudflare Workers, using isolates, achieve greater energy efficiency than traditional serverless platforms by reducing OS overhead and enabling rapid scaling. The post also discusses the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to offset the remaining carbon footprint.