This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That’s effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.
That’s where I drew the conclusion from
Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.
For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here’s a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:
Reveal: It’s Not Easy Going Green
https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/