At Platform.sh, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact. Whenever you create a project with us, we provide information about the electricity grid provider for that region. You can view the average carbon intensity of the energy grid in grams of CO2 equivalent per kilowatt-hour. These data are sourced from an annual average, which we update as new information becomes available. If you want to see real-time emissions generated by each power grid, we recommend checking out Electricity Maps. You can also access a public GitHub page of Electricity Maps data sources.
Summary of data being used in Platform.sh’s Region Picker when creating a new Project:
| Source | Electricity Maps 2022 annual averages (previous to May 2023, we had used annual averages from the IEA). See our blog post for more information. |
| Last update of this page | 11 May 2023 |
| Previous versions of this page | Available here |
Information on carbon intensity is also available in the Platform.sh API. For example, to get a list of the regions and their carbon intensities, run the following command:
platform api:curl regions | jq -r '.regions[] | select(.available != false) | .label + ": " + .environmental_impact.carbon_intensity'To find out where a given region is hosted, use the following command:
platform api:curl regions | jq '.regions[] | select(.available != false) | .id + ": " + .provider.name + " - " + .zone + " - " + .timezone' | sortThe returned list contains, for each available region, its name, provider, geographic zone and its timezone.
For more information about IP addresses and regions, please visit our public documentation on this topic.