<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-22T07:57:45Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/F119D877-E7D1-4E18-B599-BE8DBE8514AB" ns1:id="F119D877-E7D1-4E18-B599-BE8DBE8514AB"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/369C9395-0C2F-41C3-9ABF-201B200ABB63" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/5BA52A3F-B902-46F3-BAE6-0920B56140E9" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/5BA52A3F-B902-46F3-BAE6-0920B56140E9" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2023-09-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/611A27A4-55FC-418E-8CA0-00DECFA684F0" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2023-05-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10075527</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Cloud Computing Carbon Reduction</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Grant for R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>The technology sector (encompassing electronics, software, computers and AI) is responsible for ~4% of global emissions; on a par with global aviation. These emissions are projected to reach 10-30% by 2030\. The growing reliance on data-centres is a key driver that is increasing emissions significantly, with data-centres using \\\&amp;gt;11% of Ireland's electricity generated. Several areas, including North London, have limited the construction of data-centres to reduce electrical grid demands. 
 
The EU's Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the UK Sustainable Disclosure Regulation (SDR) come into operation in 2023/24, and place requirements on large organisations to report on their Scope 3 carbon-footprint. This opens a significant market, potentially &amp;pound;44bn, and has the potential to dramatically reduce emissions if organisations can fully utilise their data. The US and other large economies are expected to enter the market within a few years. 
 
Greenpixie is a UK-based technology company delivering sustainability data about cloud-computing usage to multiple sectors using a novel and innovative approach that provides granular data outputs. This supports enhanced decision-making for businesses. 
 
The current approach to greenhouse gas emissions of digital services relies on tools offered by service providers, however, these often do not deliver enough in-depth or granularity within the data. The big 3 cloud-service providers are also not incentivised to reduce cloud-data wastage. Additionally, service providers only offer tools that work on their own platform, making managing emissions across multiple cloud-service providers (AWS(Amazon), Azure(Microsoft) and GCP(Google)) impossible. 
 
Greenpixie's approach delivers a technology-agnostic view on emissions data allowing an organisation to easily understand their entire portfolio of services.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>