CI / CD pipelines run millions of times (most probably) every second and contribute significantly to carbon emissions.
There are tools to help you better measure and understand the carbon emissions of your own CI / CD workflows
- Eco CIby Berlin based Green Software company Green Coding Berlin GmbH
- It is often not possible to measure energy directly in restricted environments like containers or virtual machines.
- The Cloud Energy projectis based on research on Sustainable Computing pdf link. The paper itself describes a machine learning tool called Interact “that helps data center operators easily analyze, manage, and optimize the energy, cost, and Carbon footprint of their current servers and infrastructure.”
- CarbonRunner
There are tools for Sustainable web design
https://medium.com/@sohail_saifi/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-your-github-repos-e8dfa84e8c7a
https://champions.greensoftware.foundation/