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Learn about standardizing carbon assessment methodologies for datacenter sustainability in this 41-minute conference panel discussion from SNIA SDC 2025. Explore how the growing demand for cloud services increases environmental impact and discover why accurate carbon emission measurement is crucial for advancing sustainability goals. Examine the current fragmented landscape of carbon assessment approaches across the industry and understand how Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) standards can drive consistency, transparency, and meaningful environmental impact. Discover how PCRs serve as foundational guidelines for conducting LCAs to quantify carbon footprints of devices and services, enabling cloud providers to perform comparable, credible, and actionable carbon assessments. Gain insights into collaborative efforts underway to build unified sustainability frameworks and learn how standardized approaches support better decision-making across procurement, design, and operations. Understand the challenges in today's fragmented carbon accounting practices and explore how the industry can transition from individual initiatives to collective impact, accelerating progress toward net-zero ambitions through measurable, standardized carbon assessment methodologies. Hear from sustainability experts representing Google, Meta, and Microsoft as they share practical insights and discuss the path forward for datacenter sustainability standardization.
