Google Cloud Users Can Track App Carbon Footprints Next Year - Virtualization Review
News Google Cloud Users Can Track App Carbon Footprints Next Year By David Ramel 06/30/2022 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) announced a new sustainability initiative that will next year allow users of its Workspace apps to track their carbon footprints. Announced around this week's Google Cloud Sustainability Summit, Carbon Footprint for Google Workspace builds on a similar program last year called Carbon Footprint for Google Cloud, which helps organizations measure, report and reduce the gross carbon emissions of using Google Cloud services. Those services include BigQuery, App Engine, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine and many more. Now, the same program -- part of the Carbon Sense suite of products -- is being expanded to track emissions from Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs and several others. The existing services-oriented program to ...