The Climate and Cloudflare
Apr 23, 2019Zack Bloom, Michael Aylward

Summary
This post details Cloudflare's approach to sustainability and environmental impact, focusing on how its network architecture and platform services contribute to energy efficiency. It highlights the high utilization of its homogeneous network infrastructure, the energy savings from caching, and the efficiency gains from Cloudflare Workers' isolate technology compared to traditional operating system processes. The post also discusses the company's commitment to offsetting its remaining carbon footprint through Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for all global operations.
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