[aurelwu]

Hi Christian, first of all I think it's a great commitment.

May I ask what measures stripe has taken when it comes to energy efficiency to reduce emissions - often this can be cheaper than cleaning up the mess afterwards. Do you know, and are at liberty to disclose, how much energy your datacenters consume and what measures to reduce their footprint have you taken? Also, I read on stripe's homepage that you heat using natural gas. While this can result in rather low emissions it hugely depends on the source of the gas - if the leakage rate is too high (with fracking it often is) , it can even be worse than lignite especially when looking at shorter timeframes (20-30 years opposed to the 100 which is often used for the co2eq factor)[1] so alternative heating options if available might reduce the emissions.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.35