CXOInsights by CXOCIETY · 2026-06-01 · 21 min
This year’s Earth Day (22 April), the conversations pivot from carbon accounting to carbon action. While APAC CIOs have embedded sustainability dashboards, the rise of autonomous agents threatens to undo this progress. In 2026, an uncontrolled "agent sprawl" could exponentially increase compute, data storage, and energy use - directly conflicting with Net Zero pledges. True sustainability isn’t just about reporting emissions; it’s about embedding green governance into every autonomous decision. As agents become "digital coworkers," CIOs must treat energy efficiency and waste reduction as non-negotiable compliance metrics, ensuring AI acceleration doesn't come at the planet’s expense. With us to understand what Earth Day means in the context of the exploding AI agent sprawl is Mr Liher Urbizu, present and MD of SAP Southeast Asia. Questions covered: 1. Give us the agentic sprawl in Southeast Asia in 2026. 2. How do you embed "carbon-aware" policies directly into agent workflows? This should force autonomous agents to defer non-urgent batch processing to times of renewable energy availability. (treat carbon data like financial data) 3.
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