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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Technical Program Manager - Net Zero

Google

Bahar Riazi is with Google's Technical Infrastructure (TI) Carbon Footprint team, where she performs life cycle assessments (LCAs) for key components, including hard disk drives (HDDs). She uses primary data collected from suppliers by Google's supplier engagement team to calculate the carbon footprint at both the supplier and capacity-specific levels. Bahar identifies emission hotspots and quantifies carbon reductions in HDDs resulting from various reduction levers, such as clean energy.

Panel: Driving Sustainability in Datacenters – Standardizing Carbon Assessment Methodologies

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As the demand for cloud services continues to grow, so does the environmental impact of datacenters. Accurately measuring and managing carbon emissions is essential to advancing sustainability goals—but today’s approaches to carbon assessment vary widely across the industry. The panelists include Sustainability experts from Google, Meta, and Microsoft to discuss how the cloud industry can align on Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) standards to drive consistency, transparency, and real impact.

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