The invisible maths behind cloud carbon accounting

Summary

<p>Enterprise carbon dashboards offer a soothing narrative. Every month, CIOs receive automated reports that show declining Scope 2 emissions, <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366651925/Data-dive-The-carbon-bill-for-the-UKs-datacentre-boom">falling carbon intensity</a> per virtual core, and steady progress towards net-zero targets.&nbsp;</p> <p>For any platform engineer tasked with auditing actual operational efficiency, however, these numbers resemble financial engineering rather than physical measurement. Measuring and offsetting carbon reduction in the public cloud <a…

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