Our backend is hosted in the Google Cloud US-central region (Iowa)

Where the electricity used for the backend is produced on average 98% from decarbonized energy, mainly wind.

Official GCP page:
https://cloud.google.com/sustainability/region-carbon

"Iowa (us-central1): High CFE Score (~98%), powered primarily by wind."

💡 This page is updated regularly with hourly CFE scores.

ElectricityMap – US-IA Wind region: ~60% of the mix
https://app.electricitymap.org/map?wind=true&solar=true&countryCode=US-IA

  • Iowa's electricity is among the most wind-powered in the US
  • Carbon intensity is often between 30 and 100 gCO₂/kWh.

♻️ Each generated image ≈ 0.4 gCO₂ (about 2 meters of driving a gasoline car), 200 images = 1 km by car

AI image generation is performed on Microsoft Azure, probably in the US East region (Virginia).

Carbon intensity actor (Azure US East, estimate):

  • US East (Virginia) ≈ 350–450 gCO₂ / kWh
  • Source: ElectricityMap, Azure 2024 reports

➡️ Microsoft has committed to accelerating the decarbonization of its datacenters.