Cloud Jewels: Estimating kWh in the Cloud – Code as Craft
Good stuff from Etsy, who are attempting to reduce their non-renewable energy usage:
Cloud providers generally do not disclose to customers how much energy their services consume. To make up for this lack of data, we created a set of conversion factors called Cloud Jewels to help us roughly convert our cloud usage information (like Google Cloud usage data) into approximate energy used. We are publishing this research to begin a conversation and a collaboration that we hope you’ll join, especially if you share our concerns about climate change.
(tags: energy green climate-change power etsy kwh measurement estimation)