Well this was an entertaining 15-minute rabbit hole. The energy consumption metric (KWg) should be more clearly defined with some context info, as it's not eve

Well this was an entertaining 15-minute rabbit hole. The energy consumption metric (KWg) should be more clearly defined with some context info, as it's not even remotely standardized, or even commonly used--it took some effort to track down what it's actually measuring. According to another site[1] dedicated to sustainability, "KWg" is "kilowatts consumed per gigabyte" (presumably per gigabyte transferred), so should probably be marked as "kWGB", if it's going to exist at all. The data seems to be drawn from the Website Carbon Calculator API, which states that "If your hosting provider has not registered the IP address of your server with The Green Web Foundation, we will not be able to detect it."[2] I visited the Green Web Foundation's website[3], which appears to provide exact same services and data as the Website Carbon Calculator, which is an ironically wasteful endeavor--I'm making requests to three separate endpoints just to get an apparently arbitrary number back? I ran the test on my website, and it correctly identified my host, and strangely did not offer any kind of quantitative values and instead just gave a binary "Green" or "Not Green" determination and badge. It did at least provided some additional context, in the form of OVHCloud's Universal Registration Document[4] from FY2023, which includes a chapter on sustainability efforts, and while that was far more helpful than anything else this exercise had revealed up to this point, it notably did not provide any "kWGB" measurements, or any other site-specific energy consumption data that I could find which would facilitate calculating any sort of energy per-unit data, especially not that could then be attributable to and/or derived towards a single website that's being served from a virtual machine running on a dedicated baremetal server in one of their global data centers. Tldr; I'm fairly certain this is just meaningless filler data from a service that's probably just a corporate green-washing badge backed by little more than the faint whiff of due diligence. EDIT: Formatting --- 1. https://s2group.cs.vu.nl/2022-08-04-web-emissions/ https://s2group.cs.vu.nl/2022-08-04-web-emissions/ 2. https://www.websitecarbon.com/faq/ https://www.websitecarbon.com/faq/ 3. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/ https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/ 4. https://corporate.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2023-11/ovh-groupe-urd-fy23.pdf https://corporate.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2023-11/o...