"When you have a lot of noise, it obscures what's really important," VMware Chief Sustainability Officer Nicola Acutt said.

"Quantum computing has the potential to impact the problems we're working on right now," D-Wave VP Murray Thom said.

Based on the big three hyperscalers' environmental strategies and public data, Google Cloud stands out.

"We evaluated several smart NICs in the market at the time, and Pensando really showed up in a big way," IBM's Satinder Sethi said.

The offering combines Intel Xeon processors and HPE ProLiant DL110 servers with liquid-cooling technology to support harsh telco edge deployments.

This use case is the tip of the iceberg in terms of how generative artificial intelligence can impact organizations' sustainability efforts.

CIOs should leverage their purchasing power to support carbon-aware computing practices, IBM's Kathryn Guarini said.

Analysts note the lack of hyperscaler support for complex extranet connectivity scenarios is fueling the demand for extranet-as-a-service.

The colocation provider's ecosystem provides access to thousands of enterprises, networks, hyperscalers, carriers and other partners.

Only 32% of global high tech companies include scope 3 emissions as part of broader net-zero targets, Accenture research found.

Zscaler leads the virtual network security market with 5% more market share than No. 2 Akamai and No. 3 Palo Alto Networks, according to Dell'Oro.

Chief sustainability officers at Verizon and HPE give their advice for leading sustainable businesses as career opportunities are evolving.

Nvidia's COOLERCHIPS research is unique for its deployment of two technologies never before combined: direct-to-chip and immersion cooling.

The offering helps development teams connect network components and applications using a drag-and-drop interface.

"We make commitments, and we're living up to them. We're not backing off," Verizon Chief Sustainability Officer Jim Gowen said.

Incumbent network-as-a-service vendors are "watching new entrants carefully," Dell'Oro analyst Siân Morgan said.

Sales leaders represent "the frontline" for discussing sustainability with customers, HPE Chief Sustainability Officer Monica Batchelder said.

Open source technology plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, but the community could use deeper connections with climate scientists.

"Linkerd and [Open Service Mesh] have always been spiritual siblings," Buoyant CEO William Morgan said after the OSM project's archival.

Automated reasoning looks at how to logically prove something will or will not work, according to AWS' David Nalley.

And "it just goes up from there," depending on "where customers are within their lifecycle," Cisco's Jeremy Foster said.

"What is the point of burning the same amount of power even in the middle of night?" Intel's Pallavi Mahajan pointed out.

By 2027, 75% of organizations are predicted to have a data center sustainability program in place, according to Gartner research.

The tightening of IT budgets and sustainability's commercialization, however, don't seem to have diluted the topic's relevance.