I use make.com to automate a bunch of tasks for a specific project for which I’ve started to investigate the environmental impact of that project as a whole. This leads me to needing to try and investigate the environmental impact of using make.com.
I’m not sure if this is something that can be done right now, but maybe as a feature request it could be handy for scenarios to be able to display / log their estimated CO2 footprint for each execution.
If anyone has any info on how I could calculate such a thing now that would be super useful.
I really like this question! Based off an answer from ChatGPT you can create a very broad guesstimate:
A study by the Uptime Institute suggests that the average energy consumption for a cloud-based transaction is approximately 0.0003 kWh. Given that the global average carbon intensity of electricity is about 0.475 kg CO₂ per kWh, this translates to approximately 0.0001425 kg (or 0.1425 grams) of CO₂ per operation.
It’s important to note that this is a rough estimate. The actual emissions can vary based on factors such as the efficiency of the data centers, the energy mix of the electricity grid they are connected to, and the specific computational resources required for the operation.
So if you track your operations, you can calculate a rough estimate of the CO2 footprint.
Now you tell me if that is close to what is expected from or warranted for an automation platform, I haven’t got the slightest clue if that approximation is a lot or a little.
