Google Cloud has a host of tools to help users implement various solutions and recently released a new tool to better understand changes in environmental impact as part of the company's broader efforts to combat climate change.
And is that Google will now inform its cloud customers of the carbon emissions associated with their use from the cloud and will open satellite images to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of an initiative to help companies track and reduce their carbon budget. These new features are part of announcements made by Google Cloud to kick off its annual customer conference, which takes place this year largely due to the pandemic.
The carbon footprint characteristic shows the gross carbon emissions linked to electricity consumption from the use of the cloud platform and it shows emissions over time and you can break down the data by project, product, and region.
Companies may incorporate this information into their own data emissions for internal audits and to make carbon disclosures (they can export the data to Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, for example). Google noted that the figures refer to a user's gross carbon emissions.
The new map offering, Google Earth Engine, had been used by tens of thousands of researchers, governments and groups pressure since 2009. But now Google allows companies to access the service, which includes many data sets, such as large geospatial data such as Landsat and the software necessary to analyze it. It's also worth noting that Amazon has taken a similar initiative.
And it is that the major Western providers of cloud computing services, namely Google, Microsoft and Amazon, have been competing for years in sustainability offers. Its aim is to serve companies that are under pressure from stakeholders to rethink their operations in light of climate change.
In addition to that, Google Cloud will also mark applications that are not in use, as well as its carbon emissions, which is an excellent initiative by Google to suggest removing applications identified by the recommender from neglected projects, this will not only help companies to mitigate security risks, but also to be able to reduce the costs and reduce your carbon footprint.
"We realized that this service could be applied to many of these business opportunities," said Jen Bennett, CTO of Google Cloud.
earthengine could help ensure the sustainability of supply chains and predict operational problems associated with extreme weather conditions, according to Google. Unilever Plc, which has been testing the technology for the past 12 months, has examined its palm oil sources in Indonesia, but it was not possible to know if this resulted in any changes in practice.
Google's new carbon footprint reporting tool, similar to the one Microsoft has provided, shows emissions related to the electricity used to store and process customer data. Additionally, Google will now warn customers when they waste energy on idle cloud services.
"This is something that we now know can be applied to many of these business opportunities," said Jen Bennett, technical director of Google Cloud.
According to Google, Earth Engine can help ensure sustainable supply chains and predict operational challenges from extreme weather conditions.
For example, Unilever Plc, which has been testing the technology for the past 12 months, investigated its supply of palm oil in Indonesia, although it could not be studied whether this led to a change in practice.
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