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.
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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 |
| 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 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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| IPCC AR method |
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| LCA boundary |
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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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