Sustainable Computing Tools
Sustainable Computing Tools and Resources
There are many well-designed tools and code that support sustainable computing: enabling power and carbon tracking, adding carbon-aware behavior, and identifying sustainability improvements.
We have collected some of these resources from around the web.
Quick Carbon Calculators
Estimate the carbon emissions of your computing.
Green Algorithms
ML CO2 Impact
List of Tools
AI/ML
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
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| CarbonTracker | Emissions and Power Prediction | Enables AI applications to track and predict energy consumption and carbon emissions of a GPU while training deep learning models. | AI/ML Dev | Green Software Foundation open source | Visit |
| CodeCarbon | Emissions Analysis | Enables Python codebase to track and predict emissions and shows how to reduce emissions. |
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Four organizations open source | Visit |
| Experiment Impact Tracker | Emissions and Power Tracking | Enables AI applications to track power and emissions from NVIDIA and Intel chips. | AI/ML Dev | IBM open source | Visit |
Ops/Cloud
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Customer Carbon Footprint | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. | Ops/Cloud | Amazon Web Services | Visit |
| Climatiq | Emissions Tracking | Paid tool for tracking carbon emissions for public cloud usage |
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Climatiq paid license | Visit |
| Cloud Carbon Footprint | Emissions Tracking | Open source tool to estimate carbon emissions and power usage from public cloud usage |
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Thoughtworks open source | Visit |
| Google Cloud Platform Customer Carbon Footprint | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. | Ops/Cloud | Google Cloud Platform | Visit |
| Grid Intensity Go | Emissions Reduction | Open Source scheduling tool that adds awareness of how much carbon the electrical grid is emitting to scheduling decisions. | Ops/Cloud | Green Web Foundation open source | Visit |
| Kube Green | Emissions Reduction | Open source Kubernetes operator that shuts down resources when they aren’t needed. | Ops/Cloud | GitHub CNCF community open source | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. Available only to Power BI Pro customers. | Ops/Cloud | Microsoft Azure | Visit |
App/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Aware | Emissions Prediction | Open source SDK testing framework to track and predict carbon emissions |
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Green Software Foundation open source | Visit |
| CO2.js | Emissions Tracking | Open source library to add carbon emissions measurement to APIs |
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The Green Web Foundation open source | Visit |
| PowerAPI | Power Tracking | Open source tool to add power consumption tracking to software applications |
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Inria open source | Visit |
| Step CI | Emissions Tracking | Open source test framework that adds carbon emissions tracking | App/Dev | StepCI.com open source | Visit |
| Green Metrics Tool | Emissions and Power Tracking | Open source tool suite for tracking emissions and power consumption | App/Dev | Green Coding open source | Visit |
| Intel Performance Counter Monitor | Power Tracking | Open source API tools for tracking power consumption of microprocessors | App/Dev | Intel open source | Visit |
Web/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Are My Third Parties Green? | Third Party Services Calculator | Tests the emissions of third-party services used by a website. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation | Visit |
| CO2.js Playground | Website Emissions Calculator | Website carbon emissions calculator. Offers the most complete analysis. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation | Visit |
| Digital Beacon | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. | Web/Dev | Aline | Visit |
| EcoGrader | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator with thorough analysis. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | MightyBytes | Visit |
| EcoIndex.fr | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | EcoIndex.fr community | Visit |
| GreenIT-Analysis | Browser Emissions Tracker | Browser extension that tracks the environmental impacts of an entire user journey. | Web/Dev | CNumR | Visit |
| Green Web Foundation Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation | Visit |
| Website Carbon Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Wholegrain Digital | Visit |