Dashboard to support climate-aware business decisions

Fastly has launched a sustainability dashboard empowering Australian and New Zealand customers to meet growing regulatory requirements for supply chain emissions disclosure.

The sustainability dashboard enables users to collect data on carbon hotspots, export reports for annual disclosures, and pull emissions data straight into existing workflows.

Providing trusted, granular data on electricity use, renewable coverage, and electricity-related carbon emissions generated from usage of the Fastly edge platform, the company said the dashboard makes it easier for organisations to not only track and disclose their environmental impact, but also to truly understand and optimise it.

In addition, beyond Fastly’s own infrastructure, the dashboard gives users visibility into the electricity consumed by the data centres that host its equipment. This allows enterprises to see how electricity plays a role in their footprint, both upstream and within Fastly.

The company also said the dashboard forms a critical tool for Australian enterprises that need to remain compliant and provide reports aligned with the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme — namely companies with consolidated revenue of $50 million or more, employing more than 100 employees, or which have consolidated gross assets of $25 million or more.

Indeed, the sustainability dashboard backs every metric with published methodology aligned to the universal Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The numbers are traceable, saving time and confidently meeting stakeholder expectations for credible carbon disclosures. With this visibility, users can make data-driven decisions about how to optimise for both performance and sustainability.

As the data is updated daily and tied directly to an enterprise’s platform usage, organisations can:

• spot carbon hotspots quickly and identify steps to optimise;
• track changes in near real time, not weeks or even months later;
• combine emissions data with their existing observability tools for a holistic understanding of their edge use.
   

Key dashboard features include:

• Daily refreshed data: There’s no more waiting for annual reports. Organisations can see how their usage impacts emissions on a near real-time basis.
• Granular breakdowns: Users can explore by timeframe, geography or product area (Delivery, Compute, Shared).
• Flexible integrations: Enterprises can export data as a CSV or use Fastly’s API-first design to feed emissions data directly into existing workflows, enabling users to push the platform’s data directly into an internal observability pipeline.
• Regional insights: Break down electricity consumption and location, and market-based emissions by country. With country-level views, users can investigate where traffic is ‘dirtier’. If an enterprise is leaning too hard on fossil-heavy regions, its can improve its caching strategy to shift load without slowing users down. Enterprises can also see the renewable coverage percentage to understand how much clean energy their workloads are actually riding on.
   

“At Fastly, we've always believed that a better internet is also a more sustainable one,” said Derek Rast, Area Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, at Fastly.

“The sustainability dashboard commitment is a crucial step for our valued customers and the right thing to do from an environmental perspective for building a more sustainable future for the internet and for everyone who relies on it.

“Fastly’s sustainability dashboard ties emissions data directly to your Fastly workloads and with that visibility, users can finally make data-driven decisions about how to optimise for both performance and sustainability.”

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