Google to give cloud customers tools to check carbon footprint

Users will be able to track emissions from Workspace apps, including Gmail and Docs

Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Picture: DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG

The move by Alphabet-owned Google Cloud expands measures unveiled in 2021 to help clients measure and reduce the gross carbon emissions of using Google Cloud services. Google plans to reveal the Workspace carbon data in early 2023, Justin Keeble, MD of global sustainability at Google Cloud, said in a blog post.

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