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Acting on grid carbon intensity: the data and the place
Carbon-intensity-api and carbon-region-picker.
The same kilowatt-hour varies by an order of magnitude in carbon depending on which grid supplies it. carbon-intensity-api publishes last-hour intensity for 213 countries as static JSON, with a basis field that never lets an annual average pass as a measured hour; carbon-region-picker ranks cloud regions under a latency constraint and states the consequence rather than leaving the arithmetic to the reader.
What is in it
- The problem — what goes unanswered without it, and who notices first.
- Why the obvious alternative falls short — stated plainly, including where it is the better choice.
- How it works — the method, not a feature list.
- Concrete use cases — with console output quoted from the repository, never reconstructed.
- The methodology behind any number it emits — every term shown, so the figure survives a question.
- What it deliberately does not do — the section most papers leave out.
Part of the GreenOps theme.
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