Public cloud carbon footprint tools: comparing apples and oranges
summary
Compares the carbon-footprint estimation tools offered by major public cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), explains which metrics and sources each tool includes or ignores, and highlights that there is no common methodology so the providers produce non-comparable results. Discusses what data-centers’ impacts are being counted and what the providers neglect when reporting CO2 emissions for cloud resources.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45The impact of digital technology
- 2:44Estimating Why?
- 4:46Estimating - How?
- 12:29PCR Datacenter & Cloud
- 15:12And the data?
- 17:25And the result?
- 20:00The promises of hyperscalers
- 20:36Electricity and carbon accounting
- 24:13Amazon’s neutrality
- 26:16Microsoft - Emissions Impact Dashboard
- 28:44Google Carbon footprint
- 30:44Beyond the "calculator", at GCP
- 32:17The analysis by Carbone4
- 35:37And elsewhere?
- 40:09Going further than carbon accounting
- 41:34Conclusion
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