Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to understand the complete picture of carbon emissions.
LCA is a process-analysis method for evaluating the environmental impact of a product-system or service throughout its entire life cycle.
Google Cloud has developed a best-in-class LCA approach to evaluate the embodied carbon emissions associated with the supply chain of data center hardware.
Collaborating with supply chain partners and industry peers, Google is driving standardization in the hardware industry by participating in the development of consistent LCA guidelines.