System for determining a carbon footprint of a computing infrastructure in real time

A method for determining a carbon footprint of a computing infrastructure in real time, said computing infrastructure comprising a set of pieces of computing equipment on at least one site, wherein said method is implemented by a device that comprises

• a first database,
• a second database,
• a collector,
• a receiver, and
• a consolidator,
• wherein said method comprises:
• collecting equipment data, via said collector, from the set of pieces of computing equipment, said equipment data comprising, for each computing equipment of the set of pieces of computing equipment, a measurement of energy consumption of said each computing equipment and a time-stamped location of said each computing equipment,
• recording the equipment data that is collected in the first database via said collector,
• receiving, via said receiver, for each site of said at least one site, a carbon intensity value provided by an electricity supplier of the each site,
• recording, via said receiver, the carbon intensity value received in the first database,
• associating, via said consolidator, said carbon intensity value of said each site of said at least one site, recorded in the first database, with said each computing equipment according to the time-stamped location of said each computing equipment,
• calculating, via the consolidator, the carbon footprint of said each computing equipment from the carbon intensity value that is associated and said energy consumption of said each computing equipment that is recorded in the first database,
• recording the carbon footprint that is calculated in the second database.

A computer program product that comprises a set of program code instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to implement a method for determining a carbon footprint of a computing infrastructure in real time, said computing infrastructure comprising a set of pieces of computing equipment on at least one site,

• wherein said method is implemented by a device that comprises
• a first database,
• a second database,
• a collector,
• a receiver, and
• a consolidator,
• wherein said method comprises:
• collecting equipment data, via said collector, from the set of pieces of computing equipment, said equipment data comprising, for each computing equipment of the set of pieces of computing equipment, a measurement of energy consumption of said each computing equipment and a time-stamped location of said each computing equipment,
• recording the equipment data that is collected in the first database via said collector,
• receiving, via said receiver, for each site of said at least one site, a carbon intensity value provided by an electricity supplier of the each site,
• recording, via said receiver, the carbon intensity value received in the first database,
• associating, via said consolidator, said carbon intensity value of said each site of said at least one site, recorded in the first database, with said each computing equipment according to the time-stamped location of said each computing equipment,
• calculating, via the consolidator, the carbon footprint of said each computing equipment from the carbon intensity value that is associated and said energy consumption of said each computing equipment that is recorded in the first database,
• recording the carbon footprint that is calculated in the second database.