How to understand and track your monthly environmental footprint report

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

• A Scaleway account logged into the console
• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization

1. Click Environmental Footprint in the Organization drop-down menu to go to the Environmental Footprint Overview page. The Environmental Footprint dashboard appears, displaying the list of your current and past monthly reports.

   

2. Click the «Download Icon» next to the month for the report you want to download. The monthly report is downloaded to your local computer in PDF format.

3. Open the PDF file.

4. Read through the document, considering the following elements on the page:

   
   • 1. The start and end date of the period being tracked (month).
   • 2. The name of your Organization.
   • 3. The total carbon footprint of your Organization per month, which takes into account the impact of the manufacture and use of all the components that run your active Scaleway products in relation to each service’s useful life.
     Note

     For a detailed description of how the carbon emissions are calculated, refer to the Environmental Footprint calculation breakdown documentation page.

   • 4. The total water consumption of your Organization per month, which is calculated on the basis of the Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) of the data centers in which each of your services are located, as well as the services’ electricity consumption.
     Note

     For a detailed description of how the water consumption is calculated, refer to the Water Consumption section of the Environmental Footprint calculation breakdown documentation page.

   • 5. The total water consumption and carbon footprint of each of your Projects.
   • 6. The total water consumption and carbon footprint per geographical location (Region and Availability Zone)
   • 7. The total water consumption and carbon footprint of each of your products.

For both the carbon emissions, and the water consumption, the power consumption of your active resources is used in the calculation. The way you use your resources has a direct impact on power consumption. Therefore, results may vary greatly from one month to another.

For example, if you start your Elastic Metal server on the 15th of the month and leave it running until the end of the month, the data will be calculated for the 15 days of use, not for the whole month. If you leave the server on, non-stop, in the following month, the impact data will be calculated for a full month.