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Sustainable Computing Tools
There are many well-designed tools that support sustainable computing: enabling power and carbon tracking, adding carbon-aware behavior, and identifying sustainability improvements.
List of Tools
Quick Calculators Across the Web
Get estimated carbon emissions or power consumption with web-based quick calculators.
Cloud & AI Job Estimation
Infrastructure Estimation
Personal Activity Estimation
AI/ML
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Four organizations open source project (Dr Sasha Luccioni) | Visit |
| EcoLogits | Estimate and track the environmental footprint of GenAI models at inference | Python library to track power and emissions of AI requests, and API service to integrate into applications. Also web-based calculator tool. |
| Open source tools from group of contributors and sponsor organizations. Part of the CodeCarbon nonprofit. | 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. Data is 3 months old, without acdtionable detail. | Ops/Cloud | Amazon Web Services | Visit |
| Climatiq | Emissions Tracking | Paid tool for tracking carbon emissions for public cloud usage |
| Climatiq paid license | Visit |
| Cloud Carbon Footprint | Emissions Tracking | Open source tool to estimate carbon emissions and power usage from public cloud usage |
| Thoughtworks open source | Visit |
| Compute Gardener | Automated Scheduler | open-source scheduler to optimize workloads based on carbon intensity data |
| Compute Gardener | Visit |
| Google Cloud Platform Customer Carbon Footprint | Emissions Reporting | Customer-only tool that provides carbon emissions estimate for billed usage. Data is not real-time and lacks actionable detail. | 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 |
| Kepler | Energy consumption measurement of workloads based on CPU time | Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) is a Prometheus exporter that measures energy consumption at the container, pod, VM, and process level by reading hardware sensors and attributing power based on resource utilization. | Ops/Cloud | Cloud Native Computing 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 but data is 3 months old without actionable detail. Available only to Power BI Pro customers. | Ops/Cloud | Microsoft Azure | Visit |
| OxygenIT | Emisssions Tracking | GreenOps API to measure cloud and IT infrastructure carbon emissions. | Ops/Cloud | OxygenIT | Visit |
App/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boavizta | Emissions and Power Tracking | 5 open source tools for measuring and reducing carbon and energy |
| Boavizta | Visit |
| Carbon Aware | Emissions Prediction | Open source SDK testing framework to track and predict carbon emissions |
| Green Software Foundation open source | Visit |
| CO2.js | Emissions Tracking | Open source library to add carbon emissions measurement to APIs |
| The Green Web Foundation 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 |
| PowerAPI | Power Tracking | Open source tool to add power consumption tracking to software applications |
| Inria open source | Visit |
| Step CI | Emissions Tracking | Open source test framework that adds carbon emissions tracking | App/Dev | StepCI.com open source | Visit |
Web/Dev
| Name | Job | Description | Useful for | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| CO2.js Playground | Website Emissions Calculator | Website carbon emissions calculator. Offers the most complete analysis. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation |
| Digital Beacon | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. | Web/Dev | Aline |
| EcoGrader | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator with thorough analysis. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | MightyBytes |
| EcoIndex.fr | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | EcoIndex.fr community |
| Greenframe | Website Emissions Analysis Tool | Open-source solution that allows developers to decarbonize their websites by detecting carbon leaks | Web/Dev | Marmelab |
| GreenIT-Analysis | Browser Emissions Tracker | Browser extension that tracks the environmental impacts of an entire user journey. | Web/Dev | CNumR |
| Green Web Foundation Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Green Web Foundation |
| PageSpeed Insights | Website Performance Analyzer | Scores a web page’s speed to load and suggests improvements for faster loading and smaller page weight. | Web/Dev | |
| Website Carbon Calculator | Website Emissions Calculator | Website emissions calculator. Offers code snippet for a badge that displays emissions. | Web/Dev | Wholegrain Digital |
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