Building great software shouldn’t come at the cost of the planet. For our customers – broadcasters and media organizations – sustainability is no longer an aspirational "nice-to-have."

With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and equivalent global standards, you are increasingly accountable for your Scope 3 emissions: the environmental footprint of the entire technology supply chain you procure.

We maintain an ISO 14001 certified Environmental Management System (EMS) as an external confirmation of the high standards we set for ourselves. We pursued this certification because it provides a practical, measurable framework to improve our environmental impact, moving beyond simple claims to verifiable progress.

Mimir and Saga are built differently: serverless, multi-tenant, cloud-native from day one. That architecture doesn't just change how fast you can deploy features; it changes the shape of the hardware footprint underneath your production and newsroom operations. And is structurally designed to support your operational and compliance goals. We do the heavy lifting of measuring and optimizing, so your own sustainability reporting is built on a foundation you can trust.

We develop on AWS serverless technology, which scales automatically based on actual use and reduces the need for our customers to host and maintain data centers with high carbon footprints. AWS infrastructure is up to 4.1 times more energy efficient than on-premises and can reduce workloads’ carbon footprint by up to 99%.

Our customers can track, measure, and review the carbon emissions generated from their AWS usage here: https://aws.amazon.com/sustainability/tools/console/

Filter and view your estimated carbon emissions by AWS Region, service, usage account, and Scopes 1, 2, and 3.

Customize time aggregation (monthly, quarterly, yearly), graph type (bar chart, area chart, table), and fiscal year to match reporting needs

AWS also reports a global average facility efficiency (PUE) of 1.15 across its data centers, against an industry average of 1.63 for enterprise on-premises facilities (IDC, 2025; older enterprise facilities run 1.5–2.0).

That's a real, independent, ~30%+ reduction in the energy overhead needed to deliver the same unit of compute — before accounting for how efficiently that compute is actually used.

Why this matters for your reporting

Traditional broadcast infrastructure is engineered for "peak load" and worst-case redundancy – a model that forces you to power and cool massive, idle infrastructure for the busiest moment of the year, even on ordinary weekdays.

For your procurement and sustainability teams, this is a "Scope 3" liability. Every kilowatt-hour consumed by "always-on" legacy hardware rolls up into your carbon reporting. By moving to our serverless, cloud-native architecture, you move the needle from vague intent to operational reality:

• No idle, always-on infrastructure: Cloud-native workloads scale to actual editorial activity not to the maximum capacity of a dedicated, permanent server farm.
• Consolidation, not duplication: Saga’s single-source model removes the need for parallel rundown, CMS, and social tools eliminating the redundant servers, storage, and disaster recovery sites that typically double a newsroom's hardware footprint.
• Efficient workflows: Mimir’s proxy-first editing model allows teams to work with files that can be 1–2% of the original content size, drastically reducing unnecessary data movement and storage energy.

Beyond the product — our corporate operational footprint

While Mimir and Saga are cloud-native by design, our broader Environmental Management System (EMS) covers how we run the business itself. Our ISO 14001 certification isn't just about code efficiency; it enforces how we manage our physical and operational impact:

• Sustainable Computing: We actively monitor our cloud infrastructure and favor AWS regions powered by renewable energy.
• IT Asset Lifespan: We maximize the longevity of employee hardware, targeting a 3–5 year lifecycle for all laptops and workstations to minimize electronic waste.
• Digital-First Operations: We prioritize video collaboration over business travel. When travel is essential, we follow a "green transit" policy that favors rail over short-haul flights.
• Resource Efficiency: Within our offices, we maintain a paperless-default culture and strictly sort waste to ensure we don't contribute to unnecessary landfill.

We track these metrics annually as part of our ISO 14001 commitment. You can read our full Environmental Policy for more detail on how these standards are enforced across our teams.