# What is Vercel's Green Energy Policy?

**Author:** Sam Ko

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Vercel is committed to serverless architecture — an energy-efficient alternative to traditional servers. Whereas traditional servers must remain powered up even when idle for long durations, serverless computation runs only on-demand.

By committing to Vercel and our dedication to serverless architecture, users will ultimately consume less energy and thereby emit fewer carbon emissions.

## Reducing Carbon Footprint

Vercel's carbon footprint currently lies with multiple cloud providers that we use to provide our services to end-users.

For more information on our cloud providers' dedication to reducing their overall carbon footprint, we recommend checking out the following pages:

- [AWS & Sustainability Timeline](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/sustainability-timeline/)
  
- [Microsoft Environmental Sustainability](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability)

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