Did you know that Google Cloud customers can select Google Cloud regions based on the carbon-free energy supplying them?
As Google works on increasing the CFE% for each of the Google Cloud regions, you can take advantage of locations with a higher percentage of carbon-free energy. You must also consider your data residency, performance and redundancy requirements, but there are some good ways to reduce the associated gross carbon emissions of your workload. Read the details here.
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