- Hans Weber
- November 1, 2024
Vodafone issues annual sustainability report.Less electricity consumption, more data transmitted and, within five years, only electric cars.
Surprisingly ordinary cars are vodafone’s biggest source of carbon emissions. The reason is simple – for 12 years, only green energy has powered the company’s entire infrastructure. Although the volume of transferred mobile data on the grid has risen by more than 850 percent in the last five years, both the carbon footprint and electricity consumption are held in check by increasingly efficient technological solutions. Their relevance has risen dramatically over the past fiscal year with the arrival of the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis. All this follows on from Vodafone’s just-released non-financial annual report.
“Digital technologies are absolutely crucial to saving energy, using natural resources more efficiently, creating a circular economy and reducing electrical waste, which our data clearly show. The climate crisis is a crisis for all of us, the green and digital transformation of companies and the whole economy is therefore absolutely inevitable,” said Zuzana Holá, Vodafone’s director of communications and sustainability.
Unsurprisingly, the volume of data transmitted on Vodafone’s mobile network has been growing over the long term, rising by 864% between 2017-2022 and by a further 38% in the past year alone. Meanwhile, Vodafone reduced its CO2 emissions per unit of data by 26%. Overall electricity consumption has been reduced by 3%, mainly due to the emphasis on energy efficiency, namely the deployment of citrix server smart management.
Vodafone has been using only green energy for its operations for 12 years, which is why electricity emissions are not the main source of pollution, but plain fossil fuel consumption for fleet operations and building heating. But in these areas, too, Vodafone is coming up with innovations that have helped reduce carbon emissions.
More information at www.vodafone.cz.
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