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The Footprint

Making the invisible visible.

Sustainability must be part of your identity. Before offering products and services, we first need to build a world where it is worthwhile to work, grow, and live together.

Sustainability must be part of your identity. Before offering products and services, we first need to build a world where it is worthwhile to work, grow, and live together.

Sustainability must be part of your identity. Before offering products and services, we first need to build a world where it is worthwhile to work, grow, and live together.

Walter Abrigo

Partner and General Director, Santex

For years, technology was thought of as something intangible: lines of code, data in the cloud, and products that take up no physical space. However, that idea is no longer sustainable.

Every artificial intelligence model trained, every server processing information, and every device manufactured and discarded has a measurable impact on energy consumption, resource use, and greenhouse gas emissions. This creates an infrastructure that persists even when it is not visible.

So, the core question, then, shifts from technical to structural: What footprint does a digital company leave on the system of which it is a part? To be honest, we’re still in the process of measuring it with accuracy.

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Our work surrounding our environmental footprint did not begin recently. In fact, it has been a priority for quite some time.

For decades, we have separated waste, worked with EcoLink to consciously manage recyclables and organics, designed sustainability criteria into our workspaces, and optimized the use of our technical infrastructure.

Nevertheless, we were missing a key element: a comprehensive measurement that would allow us to see the full picture.

Over the past year, we made significant progress in consolidating a comprehensive estimated measurement of our carbon footprint. We aimed to understand the impact of our operations as a whole, including energy consumption, technological infrastructure, and the dynamics inherent to a digital company.

This is an ongoing process, as measuring our technology footprint is a long-term challenge. That’s because the impact largely lies within distributed systems such as servers, cloud services, and devices that are not always under our direct operational control, yet remain part of our responsibility within the value chain.

This lack of direct control doesn’t absolve us of responsibility, which is why we refuse to stand idly by.

As we strengthen our process, we continue to implement actions to improve the aspects we can transform today.

footprint plus an additional volume, resulting in a net-negative emissions balance from an accounting perspective. These offsets are carried out through projects focused on reducing and removing emissions, including reforestation, renewable energy and energy efficiency. We’re not operationally carbon neutral, and we’re transparent about it: offsetting is a measurable commitment and a starting point, not the finish line. Our goal is to steadily reduce emissions at the source year after year.

The driving force behind these achievements has always been the same: developing technology that creates a positive impact. In an industry that moves faster than any regulation or ethical consensus, our purpose is what gives us the clarity to say no when others would say yes.

Our values are clear:

  • Courage to keep moving despite the lack of guarantees.

  • Passion that distinguishes technology from humanity.

  • Trust built through honesty and the ability to acknowledge mistakes.

  • Participation, because the best decisions come from open, honest conversations across different perspectives.

  • These aren’t just statements or slogans. They are values we practice, measure, and shape together.


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