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Google Cloud Carbon Footprint with Steren Giannini

Screaming in the Cloud

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How Much Headwind Did You Have Internally at Google When You Had This Idea?

Many customers before we had this tool were trying to get some kind of estimate, the cloud emissions and it was, you know, Google Cloud was a black box for them. They did not have access to what you said, to some data that only Google has access to. To build that tool, we are using energy measurement of every machine in every data center. We are using customer-wide resource usage. And that is something that we use to divide the footprint among customers. It required some executive approval, which we received because many of our leaders believe that,. you know, this is the right thing to do.

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