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Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by hkh » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

rcvassallo83 wrote: post #19

You know there's a problem with cloud compute when pricing is so complicated that someone makes a specialized tool to calculate it

I'll go one step further - Ali (my brother and founder), has a PhD in cloud cost modelling! 9 million live prices across AWS, Azure and GCP is pretty insane.

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by aeternum » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

Scarcity mindset is not the way

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by hkh » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

aeternum wrote: post #22

Scarcity mindset is not the way

Do you think that only applies to Carbon, or with Cloud Costs too?

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by unslop » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 3:35 AM UTC

hkh wrote: post #21

rcvassallo83 wrote: post #19

You know there's a problem with cloud compute when pricing is so complicated that someone makes a specialized tool to calculate it

I'll go one step further - Ali (my brother and founder), has a PhD in cloud cost modelling! 9 million live prices across AWS, Azure and GCP is pretty insane.

i think it's really fun haha

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by jesterson » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 5:58 AM UTC

rtcode_io wrote: post #14

This is of zero use. Sell that to followers of WEF/EU/etc. to busy themselves and feel good.

You will be surpised how many folks buy the WEF bs. So why some people wouldnt make some money from it by counting carbon, unicorns, or other useless crap?

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by xg15 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:41 AM UTC

How many carbon emissions are produced running this?

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by xg15 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:43 AM UTC

Lerc wrote: post #4

>*Greenpixie said they have the data (AHA!!) And their data is verified (ISO-14064 & aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol)." What does this say about accuracy, and I guess ultimately the impact of the emissions? Whenever I have tried to find a meaningful measurement of environmental impact of power use I have gotten into a quagmire of statistics taking past each other, with arbitrary mixing of units and definitio…

> The end result has to be what harm is caused, because harmless use of something at any magnitude is still harmless.

We know CO2 emissions are not harmless though, so that example doesn't apply here.

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by grigio » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC

Can I also see my impact while I'm gaming and paying with credit card? /s

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by JCharante » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 10:46 AM UTC

wouldn't this directly map to cost? Like sure I guess some data centers might use renewable energy sources while another might run on generators 24/7 so you could save carbon by switching data centers, but isn't cost a good enough proxy already?

Re: Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

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Post by leskenazi » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 8:50 AM UTC

Hey,

You might be interested in this : https://github.com/Boavizta (open source it environnemental data)

Best regards,

Laurent