Platform.sh carries out its Carbon Footprint with Greenly!

We've decided to commit to fighting climate change, and to reduce CO2 emissions. To do this, we've decided to act, and act quickly. We believe we provide instant long-term benefits to our customers, drastically reducing their digital carbon footprint. We're continuing to work closely with our clients, partners and ecosystem to consolidate our approach and reassert our deep commitment to the environment.

Frédéric Plais

CEO & Co-founder - Platform.sh.

Tell us about the Platform.sh adventure 🔍

Platform.sh is the cloud platform engineered to simplify building, managing, and scaling your websites and applications. Whether you have one application or one thousand, our Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) empowers your developers to take the load off of infrastructure management, and allow us to do the heavy lifting for you. No training required. Test fearlessly with instantly cloned environments, deploy with confidence knowing your application will work as it should from the start, and manage your infrastructure from one, unified, secure platform. 

We are dedicated to reducing the effects of our activity on the environment and through our greener hosting MODE strategy, we’re making that a reality. As a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), we help our clients minimize the environmental impact of their applications by hosting them in the cloud, but for us, greener hosting doesn’t stop there. Through the four phases of our MODE strategy - measure, optimize, deploy, and educate - we help reduce impact further. We are utilizing accurate certified third-party carbon auditing, high-density computing and application optimization, location-based hosting, and consistent investment in research and development. You don’t need another server, we just need to optimize what we have.  

Audit year : 2024 Results 🌱

Audit year : 2024

Total :  2571  tons CO2eq

2024 results show a +10% increase in absolute from 2023: 

• Following GHG protocol: 
• Scope 1: 1.1 tCO2eq
• Scope 2:  1.5 tCO2eq
• Scope 3: 2,469 tCO2eq
• Scope 3 for the Cloud:      1418.4 tCO2eq 
• Scope 3 for Platformers:   1050.6  tCO2eq 
• Not included in GHG protocol: 99 tC02eq

Number of Platformers :  205

Methodological update for cloud emissions *

Since 2020, Platform.sh has been calculating its direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2025, Platform.sh collaborated with Greenly to develop a new methodological approach, enhancing the way it calculates cloud emissions for its customers. As a multicloud platform, Platform.sh aimed to create a reporting system that is agnostic to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and based on location-specific carbon intensity data, addressing the inconsistencies in CSP reporting. Although carbon footprinting is an evolving process, our teams are dedicated to improving the accuracy of these calculations. The emissions data for 2024 and 2023 have been updated accordingly, and any significant updates will be communicated to customers who request this information.

This methodology is based on the continuous work of Greenly, One byte model, Cloudcarbonfootprint and Boavitza. 

For further information,  please  reach out to [email protected].

Total for cloud computing (for customer): 1418.4 tCO2eq/year

• Emissions compute: 430tCO2eq
• Storage: 370tCO2eq
• Transfer: 481tCO2eq
• CDN: 37tCO2eq
• Other*: 100tCO2eq
  

*Other = Licences, monitoring and security services,, etc

Audit year : 2023 🌱

Total :  2345.6 tons CO2eq

In 2025, the cloud carbon footprinting methodology was updated, which does not allow year-on-year comparison beyond 2023. 

• Following GHG protocol: 
• Scope 1:  1 tCO2eq
• Scope 2: 1.6 tCO2eq
• Scope 3: 2343 tCO2eq
• Scope 3 for the Cloud:    1487  tCO2eq
• Scope 3 for Platformers:  856  tCO2eq 

Number of Platformers :  219

Total for cloud computing (clients): 1487 tCO2eq/year 

• Emissions compute: 499 t CO2eq
• Storage: 345tCO2eq
• Transfer: 466tCO2eq
• CDN: 41tCO2eq
• Other*: 136tCO2eq

*Other =  Licenses, monitoring and security services etc.