codecarbon VS cloud-carbon-footprint

The underlying calculations apparently depend on the following CSV: https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon/blob/master/codecarbon/d...

Two problems I see here

1. They are using AWS, which is not in the data set

2. The data set seems questionable to me. The GCP Iowa data center has some of the best renewable usage, are they using the data center total (a larger data center with more renewable can still have more total emmissions vs only 8% of the compute I use should be included in the calculation. Either way, the underlying data for the calculation is out of date

I really like codecarbon to monitor my power usage: https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon

Stumbled upon this GitHub repo that seems to be only usable for JavaScript / typescript type use cases. (https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint) was wondering if anyone knew of a similar package for python to calculate carbon emissions for AWS resources

I'm not sure if the AWS SDK has any integration with that service, but there are some open source projects already doing a similar thing. https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint

ThoughtWorks made an app that does this: https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footp... but mainly works with aws, azure, and gcp

You might be interested in the methodology page cloudcarbonfootprint.org/docs/methodology/

The emissions are derived from billing. The billing-to-CO2 coefficients are debated by the Cloud Carbon Footprint community (and overridable if needed). You can find more infos on the project methodology page, and contribute to their Github project or Google Group.

See also https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footp...

There are a lot of open-source projects where one can contribute; I like the list maintained at https://opensustain.tech/. It’s a long list, so might make sense to focus on a specific sector one might be interested in and projects that can use your existing experience (e.g. in a particular language). A few projects that I think are amazing are OpenAQ which maintains an open API and open data on air quality and levels of pollutants; the Linux Foundation Energy projects like Grid eXchange Fabric that has a lot of applications in green energy (e.g. solar microgrids, load management, etc.); and the Cloud Carbon Footprint tool mentioned in another question, used to estimate the carbon emissions of cloud applications.