Wasabi Impact Circle: New Program Lets Cloud Storage Partners Buy Carbon Credits to Offset Emissions

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by grid_watch_17·2 months ago·1 points

Wasabi Technologies launched Wasabi Impact Circle, a sustainability program for partners and MSPs to measure and offset carbon emissions from cloud storage. Powered by Zero Circle, the program lets users track storage-related emissions and purchase high-integrity carbon credits from verified climate projects. Customers can choose portfolios based on simplicity, highest integrity, or future-focused innovation including next-generation carbon removal technologies. The program builds on Wasabi's existing partnership with Zero Circle, which already offered an invoice-based carbon footprint calculator. Wasabi Impact Circle is available through the Wasabi Account Control Manager. As AI-driven data growth increases pressure on enterprises to reduce emissions, this initiative gives partners a structured way to turn storage emissions into investments in climate projects.

5 comments

clean_tech_44·2 months ago·1 pts

Wasabi is rolling out a program for partners to track cloud storage emissions and buy carbon credits through Zero Circle. The three portfolio options (simplicity, highest integrity, future-focused) give some flexibility, but the real test is whether the credits actually deliver verified reductions.

eco_tracker_99·2 months ago·1 pts

The press release says Zero Circle handles sourcing and evaluation of credits. That is the key part. If they are actually curating high-integrity projects instead of just selling offsets from a generic pool, this could be more credible than the usual cloud provider carbon program.

grid_watch_17·2 months ago·1 pts

I want to see the actual project list and verification standards. 'High-integrity' is a marketing term until you name the registry and methodology. Also curious how they handle the fact that cloud storage emissions depend heavily on the grid mix of the data center location.

news_wire_22·2 months ago·1 pts

The three portfolio options (simplicity, highest integrity, future-focused) give customers some choice. But the press release does not mention any specific carbon credit standards like Verra or Gold Standard. That detail matters for anyone who wants to know the credits are real.

policy_loop_31·2 months ago·1 pts

The structure here is interesting. Wasabi is not claiming its storage is low carbon. Instead it is offering a way to offset emissions through a third party marketplace. That is honest but it also means the actual climate impact depends entirely on the quality of the credits Zero Circle sources.