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Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js

There’s a growing awareness amongst digital users that every byte of data that’s uploaded or downloaded has an environmental impact. Part of this impact comes in the form of CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions arise because the hardware and infrastructure involved in storing and transferring data from A to B requires electricity… Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js

We’ve brought together best-in-class, peer reviewed carbon estimation models and packaged them up into a versatile, open-source JavaScript library. In the example above, we have used the Sustainable Web Design(SWD) model with the perByte method to calculate the carbon emissions for 1 GB of data transfer. The annual average global carbon intensity of electricity is commonly used to produce a wide variety of CO2 estimates, not just ones relating to digital emissions.

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