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title: "Discussion on \"Your cloud bill knows the dollars, not the carbon. cinderscope estimates the kgCO2e - offline.\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Your cloud bill knows the dollars, not the carbon. cinderscope estimates the kgCO2e - offline.\". Cost and carbon are two different rankings on the same usage export: a cheap region can be dirty, an expensive one clean. cinderscope reads the export you already have and estimates the kgCO2e of every row - no account access, no agents, nothing leaving your machine — then tells you which region to move."
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/cinderscope-cloud-carbon-estimator/6aa5304f7ae79acb0a759cd9"
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# [Your cloud bill knows the dollars, not the carbon. cinderscope estimates the kgCO2e - offline.](https://jaytank.hashnode.dev/cinderscope-cloud-carbon-estimator?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Cost and carbon are two different rankings on the same usage export: a cheap region can be dirty, an expensive one clean. cinderscope reads the export you already have and estimates the kgCO2e of every row - no account access, no agents, nothing leaving your machine — then tells you which region to move.

Sep 12 · 7 min read · jaytank.hashnode.dev  
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