With this release, the new Sustainability Dashboard is introduced within the Financial Dashboard. It enables customers to view estimated electricity consumption and the resulting market-based greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂e) associated with their cloud services.
The calculations are based on a catalog-driven, service-level modelling approach. For the majority of displayed cloud services, energy consumption is estimated by technically mapping each service to its underlying infrastructure components (e.g. compute, containers, Database, storage, network). Allocation is performed using technical drivers such as number of vCPUs, allocated memory, or provisioned storage capacity. Non-IT data center energy consumption (e.g. cooling, lighting) is proportionally allocated using the regional Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) factor.
For a limited number of highly abstract services, where direct technical attribution is not meaningful (e.g. certain API-based functions), consumption is estimated using derived conversion factors. These services represent only a small proportion of the services shown in the dashboard.
Associated emissions are calculated in accordance with the GHG Protocol using market-based Scope 2 accounting. Location-specific electricity emission factors are applied, taking into account contractual instruments for renewable electricity procurement.
Customer benefits:
- Increased transparency on the estimated energy consumption and carbon footprint of cloud usage
- Support for sustainability reporting and internal assessments
- Improved basis for environmentally conscious architectural and usage decisions
The Sustainability Dashboard is available directly within the existing Financial Dashboard.
There are no changes to API or Terraform.
The Cloud Management Console UI remains unchanged; only a new section within the Financial Dashboard is added.