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12. Related Documents
Standards, research, and sources referenced by the methodology.
Greenpixie Methodologies
- Greenpixie, Methodology for Cloud Emission Measurement.
Standards and Protocols
- World Resources Institute and WBCSD, The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, Revised Edition, 2004.
- World Resources Institute and WBCSD, Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard, 2011.
- International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14064-1:2018.
- International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14064-3:2019.
Regulatory Sources
- European Parliament and Council of the European Union, Directive (EU) 2022/2464 as regards corporate sustainability reporting (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), 2022.
- HM Government (UK), Environmental Reporting Guidelines: Including Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting Guidance, 2019.
- Securities and Exchange Commission (US), The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, 2024.
Server Power Measurement
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, SPECpower_ssj2008, accessed September 2026.
Processor and Accelerator Sources
- Amazon Web Services, AWS Graviton Technical Guide, accessed September 2026.
- AMD, Alveo MA35D Accelerator: Unleashing Interactive Streaming at Scale, accessed October 2026.
- AMD, Alveo U200 and U250 Data Center Accelerator Cards Data Sheet, accessed October 2026.
- AMD, Getting Started with Virtualization, accessed October 2026.
- Ampere Computing, Ampere Altra Family Product Brief, accessed September 2026.
- Ampere Computing, Ampere Altra Rev A1 64-Bit Multi-Core Processor Datasheet, 2024.
- Arm, Neoverse N2, accessed September 2026.
- Arm, Neoverse N3, accessed September 2026.
- Arm, Neoverse V1: A New Approach to HPC, 2021.
- Arm, Neoverse V3, accessed September 2026.
- Habana Labs, Habana Labs Approach to Scaling AI Training, Hot Chips 2019 conference presentation, accessed October 2026.
- NVIDIA, NVIDIA Data Center GPU Datasheets and Product Briefs, accessed September 2026.
- NVIDIA, NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip, accessed September 2026.
- PassMark Software, PassMark CPU Benchmarks, accessed September 2026.
- Phoronix, Google Axion C4A Benchmarks, accessed September 2026.
- Qualcomm Technologies, Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, accessed October 2026.
- TechPowerUp, TechPowerUp CPU Database, accessed September 2026.
Memory and Drive Component Sources
- Micron Technology, DDR4 and DDR5 Memory Module Datasheets, accessed September 2026.
- Shehabi, A. et al., United States Data Center Energy Usage Report, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL-1005775, 2016.
- Shehabi, A. et al., 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL-2001637, 2024.
Cloud Provider Sources
- Amazon Web Services, Amazon EC2 Instance Type Specifications, accessed September 2026.
- Amazon Web Services, Key Concepts for Burstable Performance Instances, accessed September 2026.
- Amazon Web Services, Specifications for Amazon EC2 Previous Generation Instances, accessed October 2026.
- Google Cloud, Bare Metal Instances, accessed September 2026.
- Google Cloud, General-Purpose Machine Family for Compute Engine, accessed September 2026.
- Google Cloud, GPU Machines in Accelerator-Optimized Machine Family, accessed September 2026.
- Google Cloud, Machine Families Resource and Comparison Guide, accessed September 2026.
- Microsoft Azure, Azure Virtual Machines Sizes Documentation, accessed September 2026.
- Microsoft Azure, End of Life Azure VM Size Series, accessed October 2026.