Sustainable IT Services News 22 October 2025: Rackspace Carbon Reduction, SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and More

Here is today's sustainable IT services news, research and analysis for channel partners, MSPs, climate accounting professionals, consultants and the chief sustainability officers (CSOs) they serve.

A. Sustainable IT Partnerships, Strategic Alliances and Strategies

1. IT Services and Carbon Reduction: Rackspace in 2025 reduced total emissions by 10% compared to a 2023 baseline, the company.

2. SAP - Software Enhancements: Existing and forthcoming updates to SAP Sustainability Footprint Management will "extend footprint calculations beyond CO2 emissions to include other impact categories, such as land use, energy, waste, and abiotic resource depletion," SAP asserts. 

3. Salesforce Faces Climate Skepticism: A recent Salesforce move -- using gross profit to normalize emissions data -- isn't a measure of global climate progress, an editorial published by Trellis asserts.

4. Data Center: THG has leveraged Pure Storage and various consolidation efforts to cut data center power consumption by 80%, the company said.

5. Partnership - Education Vertical: CoSN and SETDA, in partnership with IT and telecommunications solution provider UDT, recently released a set of Sustainability Procurement Guidelines designed to help K-12 school and district leaders, procurement officers, and technology directors make purchasing decisions that are both environmentally responsible and operationally effective, THE Journal reported.

B. Sustainable IT Investments, Funding, Earnings and Business Launches

Nothing to share in this section today. Check for updates in this area tomorrow.

C. Regional and Global Sustainability Policies, Regulations and News

1. COP30 - United States Question Marks: Some members of Congress are delaying making concrete plans for attending COP30 because of the government shutdown, Politico reported.

2. United States - Wind Energy Pressures: An offshore wind venture between BP Plc and Japan’s Jera Co. plans to close its operating activities in the United States as the clean energy resource faces pressure from the Trump administration, Bloomberg reported.

3. Canada - Data Center and Crypto Pushback: British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to AI data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects.

4. New Zealand - Climate Regulations: New Zealand will ease climate-reporting rules and lift thresholds for how big a company needs to be before it has to report how climate change impacts their business, in a bid to revive capital markets, Reuters reported.

D. Sustainability Conferences, Summits and Events

1. ASHRAE Building Decarbonization Conference 2025 (October 22-24, Chicago, Illinois)
2. E-Scrap Conference 2025 (October 27-29, Grapevine, Texas)
3. Sustainable Cold Chain for the Global South 2025 (October 28-29, England)
4. NJBIA’s Energy and Environmental Policy Forum 2025 (October 28-29, New Jersey)
5. EcologiQ Green Infrastructure Conference 2025 (October 29-30, Melbourne, Australia)
6. Complete Sustainability Conference Calendar

E. Previous Updates & Future News

1. Previous News: All of our daily news updates are here.
2. Future Updates: If you have news to share then please email me the details.