Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp. recently announced Comcast Cable plans to double its network energy efficiency by 2030. This is in addition to the company’s plans to become carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2035 across its global operations.
To achieve energy efficiency, the company plans to cut its electricity consumption per terabyte of data in half.
The majority of the company’s emissions come from electricity. To combat this,
Comcast is investing in renewable energy to power its network and operations, investing in cloud-based technologies, and transitioning to more energy-efficient technologies and facilities.
“We’re on the path to a greener internet,” Charlie Herrin, president of the Technology, Product, Experience organization within Comcast Cable, said. “The smart technologies powering our new network architecture are transforming how data is delivered, providing the industry’s best combination of speed, coverage, and control – all more sustainably. Achieving our carbon neutral goal will require our business to work harder and smarter, and that goes for the network itself.”
The announcement was made at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2022 in Philadelphia. The expo runs through Thursday.
Comcast gifted renewable energy certificates will power the expo completely with clean energy.
Comcast has 57 million broadband, wireless, and video customers in the United States and Europe.