About Google
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.
Visit Google websiteCarbon data across GCP regions
| Property | Value |
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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 URL | URL |
| Year released | 2021 |
| Geography | Multiple regions |
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| 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 URL | URL |
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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| 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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