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ADEME

54 Factors54 Factor
27 Regions27 Region
2 Activities2 Activity

About ADEME

Google is a global internet services company. They calculate and publish carbon emissions associated with their operations in their data centres, using hourly grid mix and carbon intensity data from Electricity Maps.

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DATASET

Carbon data across GCP regions

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Description
Google is a global internet services company. They calculate and publish carbon emissions associated with their operations in their data centres, using hourly grid mix and carbon intensity data from Electricity Maps.
Source type
Corporate
Original dataset URLURL
Year released
2021
Geography
Multiple regions
Sector
Type of data
Activity-based
Emission results
CO2e
Data Transformation
The source reports emissions in gCO2e/kWh, which have been converted to kgCO2e/kWh to ensure consistency.

License

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Type of license
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
License URLURL

Data quality

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Data quality assurance
Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality
Quality flag(s)
This emission factor is self-reported by Google.

Methodology

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IPCC AR method
  • AR5
LCA boundary
  • electricity_generation
Scope applicability
  • 2
Emissions breakdown
  • Total (CO2e, AR5)
Methodology description

The hourly grid carbon intensity data is sourced from Electricity Maps, which uses IPCC (2014) electricity generation emission factors by source to produce a volume-weighted hourly carbon intensity factor for each grid.

For full details, see the Google Cloud region carbon page: https://cloud.google.com/sustainability/region-carbon.

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