Domain 6 of 6 · Chapter 3 of 3

Sustainability

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Included in this chapter:

  • Google's three escalating climate commitments
  • Customer-facing sustainability products
  • Exam-pattern recognition
Cheat sheet

Cheat sheet

  • Google has been carbon neutral since 2007
  • Google matched 100% of its energy use with renewable energy in 2017
  • Google's goal is 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030
  • Carbon neutral is not the same as zero emissions
  • Carbon Footprint measures the emissions of your Google Cloud usage
  • Carbon Footprint reports Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions at no extra charge
  • Export Carbon Footprint data to BigQuery for custom reporting
  • A region's carbon-free energy percentage (CFE%) shows how clean it is
  • Pick a higher-CFE% region for latency-tolerant workloads to cut carbon
  • Active Assist estimates carbon saved by reclaiming idle projects
  • Moving off inefficient on-prem hardware can support a sustainability goal
  • BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse for SQL analytics over large datasets
  • Google Cloud Region Picker balances carbon footprint, price, and latency
  • Reducing idle resources lowers both cost and carbon together

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References

  1. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/our-third-decade-climate-action-realizing-carbon-free-future/
  2. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/announcing-round-the-clock-clean-energy-for-cloud
  3. https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint
  4. https://docs.cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint/docs/view-carbon-data
  5. https://docs.cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint/docs/export
  6. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/sharing-carbon-free-energy-percentage-for-google-cloud-regions
  7. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/reduce-your-cloud-carbon-footprint-with-active-assist