a network interface device receiving, via an enterprise controlled wide area network (enterprise WAN), operational telemetry measurements, including power consumption analytics, IoT sensor data transfer volume, and geographic location for each of a plurality of access point (AP) IoT servers, and receiving processed IoT sensor data generated by alteration of unprocessed IoT sensor data by each of the plurality of AP IoT servers executing a common data processing method, where the plurality of AP IoT servers gather unprocessed IoT sensor data from a plurality of IoT sensors;

a hardware processor executing code instructions of the CO2 minimizing IoT edge gateway data processing orchestration system to determine that an initial volume of CO2 emitted per unit of processed IoT sensor data transferred from each of the plurality of AP IoT servers to a cloud computing platform, via the orchestrating IoT gateway device in the enterprise WAN, is greater than an adjusted volume of estimated CO2 that would be emitted per unit of unprocessed IoT sensor data if the common data processing method were executed at the orchestrating IoT gateway device information handling system instead of at the plurality of AP IoT servers; and

the network interface device transmitting a code instruction to each of the plurality of AP IoT servers to cease execution of the common data processing method, and to transmit later-recorded unprocessed IoT sensor data to the orchestrating IoT gateway device information handling system.