Carbon Modeling

The Carbon Modeling Workstream is a workstream of the OCP Sustainability Project focused on embodied carbon: the CO2e emitted by the manufacture of the physical entities within a data center. Because embodied carbon cannot be directly measured, it must be modeled, which gives the workstream its name. It addresses three challenges: data access (obtaining the best estimates of embodied CO2e from the supply chain and researchers), data opacity (understanding the methods used to estimate it along the supply chain), and data grade (summarizing the quality and completeness of those estimates).

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Shruti Sethi

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About This Workstream

Carbon Modeling is a Workstream under the OCP Sustainability Project.

This workstream focuses on embodied carbon, which is the CO2e emitted by the manufacture of the physical entities within a data center. Embodied carbon cannot be directly measured; rather, it is modeled — hence the workstream’s name, OCP Sustainability Carbon Modeling.

Scope

The workstream focuses on:

  • Data Access : how to obtain best estimates of embodied CO2e values from the supply chain and researchers
  • Data Opacity : how to understand the various methods used to estimate embodied CO2e at all steps along the supply chain
  • Data Grade : how to summarize the quality and completeness of embodied CO2e estimates

Resources

– Working Group Home Page – This workstream focuses on embodied carbon, which is the CO2e emitted by the manufacture of the physical entities within a data center. Embodied carbon cannot be directly measured, rather it is modeled, and thus this workstream is named OCP Sustainability Carbon Modeling.

This workstream was created to address the following challenges:

  1. Data Access: How to obtain best estimates of embodied CO2e values from the supply chain and researchers.
  2. Data Opacity: How to understand the various methods that were utilized to estimate embodied CO2e at all steps along the supply chain.
  3. Data Grade: How to summarize the quality and completeness of the embodied CO2e estimates.
  • Meetings are 3PM EST on Tuesdays.

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Carbon Modeling calendar