WTF is Carbon Neutrality and How Companies Can Achieve It

Each search releases roughly 0.2 grams of Carbon Dioxide into our atmosphere due to servers and data centre maintenance. Using Gmail for a year pours out 1.2kg CO2 per user. Google is awarded a carbon credit that denotes how much they have invested in carbon offsets, which means how much carbon they’ve prevented from entering into the atmosphere. Being carbon neutral means a company has brought its net carbon — and other greenhouse gases including methane — emissions down to zero. Google says their data centres consume the minimum power possible.