🌿 Environmental impact of euroargodev activities

[gmaze]

I'm concerned about the environmental impact of the digital Argo activities taking place on the euroargodev platform.

I'm glad that Github claims to be carbon neutral. So we may be "ok" with regard to computing ressources used by euroargodev on Github.

Nonetheless, I started to experiment with the Green Metrics Tools from Green Coding with argopy (check dashboard here).

Using these tools, it is relatively easy to get an estimate of the energy used and CO2eq emitted by runs executed by Github Actions. See explanations here and the action on the market place.

I created a "company" uuid to report any possible numerical activities related to euroargodev.
It's available to any repo from the organisation and can be used as easily as:

    steps:
      - name: Energy Estimation - Initialize
        uses: green-coding-berlin/eco-ci-energy-estimation@v3
        with:
          task: start-measurement
          company-uuid: ${{ secrets.CARBONDB_COMPANY_UUID }}
          project-uuid: ${{ secrets.CARBONDB_PROJECT_UUID }}
        continue-on-error: true

The euroargodev impact dashboard can be found here. In theory, we can report to the CarbonDB any impact. The reports give something like this:

Don't hesitate to tell me what you think about this and if you're interested in measuring your Github Actions !