How to measure your cloud carbon footprint

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wondered how to measure your cloud carbon footprint, you can — thanks to a tool that's called, somewhat unsurprisingly, Cloud Carbon Footprint. Launched in March 2021 by Thoughtworks as an open-source project, it allows users to monitor and measure carbon emissions and energy use from cloud services.

On this episode of the Technology Podcast, senior software engineers Cameron Casher and Arik Smith join Alexey Boas and Ken Mugrage to talk about Cloud Carbon Footprint in depth. They explain why CCF is different from the measurement tools offered by established cloud vendors, how it actually works and how you can get started with it yourself.

CCF on GitHub: https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint

Learn more: https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. My name is Alexei. I'm speaking to you from
0:14.0	Santiago in Chile, and I'm going to be one of your hosts this time together with Ken McGregge.
0:19.6	Hello, Ken. How are you?
0:20.9	I'm good, thanks. I'm Ken McGrage. I'm in Seattle, Washington, one of your regular hosts.
0:26.0	And this time we're going to talk a little bit about the cloud carbon footprint, and we have
0:30.3	two guests with us this time. So Eric Smith and Kevin Casher. So maybe you two could introduce yourselves to the host. Eric, how about you?
0:41.0	Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah, for sure. So my name's Eric Smith,
0:46.7	currently based out of Cleveland, Ohio. And yeah, I've been at ThoughtWorks for three years
0:53.7	anniversary recently. And yeah, during that time, I've been at ThoughtWorks for three years anniversary recently.
0:56.5	And yeah, during that time I've been primarily working as a developer and consultant on our sustainability solutions team where I was able to help develop and currently maintain the Cloud Carbon Footprint Project.
1:08.7	And as of now, I am still doing sustainability stuff,
1:11.5	but also on our enterprise modernization
1:14.6	of platforms and cloud team,
1:16.9	where I essentially serve as a cloud specialist
1:20.5	and sustainability SME on that team.
1:23.2	So thanks for having me.
1:26.2	Thanks a lot, Eric. Great pleasure to have you with us this time.
1:30.3	And how about you, Cameron?
1:31.3	Hi, my name is Cameron Casher.
1:34.3	I've been at ThoughtWorks for almost five years.
1:38.3	I live in Denver, Colorado.
1:40.3	And I've worked pretty closely with Eric for at least two or three of those years, I'd say,
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