ICT Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) provide a detailed assessment of an organisation’s ‘backend’ IT infrastructure, services, and data in terms of energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. We use Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) method to capture not only operational but also embodied emissions for full impacts.
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) Elements
Energy & Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Detailed analysis of energy consumption, energy cost, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of your organisation's ICT
Networking Effects
Comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impacts of your organisation’s network computing, e.g., cloud computing, distributed computing, and virtual network
Embodied Emissions
Thorough assessment of emissions associated with the production, delivery, and end-of-life of the hardware in your organisation
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis to reveal potential ranges of impacts within your organisation
EIA Levels
Advanced EIA
A tailored, in-depth, rigorous estimate based upon as much primary data as possible, reflecting the best possible accuracy. Ideal for organisations wanting to report environmental impacts of migrating to different technologies (e.g. moving to Cloud), manage current impacts of IT/Cloud and understand their wider environmental footprint.
Results are suitable for reporting publicly or using within environmental reporting.
Results are suitable for reporting publicly or using within environmental reporting.
Simple EIA
A quick and rough estimate, based on science and using secondary data. Useful for exploring main areas of potential impact and to highlight potential impacts of moving to different technologies.
Results are not suitable for reporting publicly or using within environmental reporting.
Results are not suitable for reporting publicly or using within environmental reporting.
Bespoke EIA
Not sure what suits you? Talk to us to find out how we can help your organisation and you
EIA Case Study: Telstra
Project Objectives
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Review Telstra’s Australian Cloud services and determine the energy, water and carbon emissions footprint
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Highlight changes in energy and emissions for a Telstra Cloud user using an online tool
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Relay reality through a series of customer case studies
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Ensure rigour and science behind every output
Our Approach with Telstra
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Measure Telstra’s Data Centres at the most granular level possible
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Utilise Qingtech modelling tool to analyse both Public and Private Cloud services
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Generate dashboards by joining together customer, data centre, software use and individual server datasets
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Create bespoke customer ‘Before and After’ cloud computing energy and emissions models
EIA Outputs for Telstra Cloud
Energy, Water and Emissions Dashboards
Data centre energy, water and emissions dashboards for specific Cloud types and customers
Strategic Impact Forecasting
Detailed future impact scenarios for Telstra Cloud services according to long term corporate strategy
Cloud Computing Impact Metrics
Assessment of the true environmental impacts of cloud computing down to per user, GB RAM, GHz, Blade, litre of water, etc.
Customer Case Studies
To help organisations get a sense of the real benefits of Telstra Cloud, we analysed two Telstra Cloud business customers to quantify the business and sustainability gains.
- Reduced energy consumption for data storage and management
- Carbon emissions saving
- Energy related costs saving
Online Carbon Calculator
An interactive way to demonstrate how Telstra Cloud can help their prospective customers find out the potential cost, energy and carbon savings by moving on-premises IT to the cloud, based on:
- Industry, location and size of organisation
- Cloud adoption level
- Current and proposed setup