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Decide on Equinix metro for cluster and identify carbon intensity for this location

Open rossf7 opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

For #3 we are manually creating an Equinix cluster in their Paris metro (their name for region). This was selected because France has a low average carbon intensity.

Here is the full list of metros. https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/docs/metal/locations/metros/

We should decide if we're happy with this location or wish to use another?

For calculating the SCI score we need to know the carbon intensity at the location where the cluster is hosted.

https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/sci/blob/main/Software_Carbon_Intensity/Software_Carbon_Intensity_Specification.md#location-based-marginal-carbon-intensity

Where do we get the carbon intensity value from? How often should we update the carbon intensity value?

Using a dynamic value may make it harder to compare between SCI scores.

rossf7 avatar Oct 24 '23 09:10 rossf7