AI is accelerating your emissions footprint.
We’ll help you measure it.
Every GPU cluster spun up, every colocation rack provisioned, every cloud workload scaled — they all carry an emissions cost. As investor scrutiny, client questionnaires, and California’s climate disclosure laws put pressure on software and technology companies to report credibly, Greenplaces will be at DCD>Connect New York to show how leading tech companies are building the carbon accounting infrastructure to stay ahead of it.
We’ll be at DCD>Connect to show you what’s possible.
Why we’re there
The emissions behind software and technology are no longer invisible
For most software and technology companies, the largest share of the emissions footprint doesn’t sit inside a building — it sits in a data center. Purchased electricity from colocation facilities, cloud compute, corporate offices, and employee business travel all contribute to a carbon profile that investors, enterprise clients, and regulators are increasingly asking companies to quantify and disclose.
California’s SB 253 requires companies with over $1 billion in revenue doing business in the state to publicly report Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions annually. SB 261 requires climate-related financial risk disclosure for companies above $500 million. For tech companies headquartered in or operating across California — which is most of them — this isn’t a distant obligation. Globally, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is expanding emissions and climate disclosure requirements across EU-linked operations, raising the bar for any company with European customers, entities, or investors.
Greenplaces gives technology organizations the carbon accounting software to measure, verify, and report their full emissions profile — cloud compute and colo included — across every framework their stakeholders require.
Scope 1
Direct emissions
Typically small for software companies, but material for those with owned data center facilities or large corporate campuses.
→ On-site generators and fuel
→ Company vehicle fleets
→ Owned facility HVAC
Scope 2
Purchased electricity
Often the dominant emissions source for technology companies — driven almost entirely by data center and cloud infrastructure energy consumption.
→ Colocation facility usage
→ Cloud compute (AWS, Azure, GCP)
→ Corporate office power
Scope 3
Value chain emissions
The fastest-growing reporting requirement — and for many tech companies, the largest share of total emissions once supply chain and employee activity are counted.
→ Employee commuting and remote work
→ Business travel
→ Hardware manufacturing (upstream)
→ End-user device usage (downstream)
What we hear at events like this
The reporting questions tech teams are wrestling with right now
How we help
Carbon accounting built for the complexity of modern technology operations
Technology companies don’t fit neatly into traditional emissions reporting templates. Your infrastructure spans hyperscalers, colos, and edge deployments. Your headcount is distributed across time zones. Your supply chain runs through semiconductor fabs and hardware ODMs. Greenplaces is purpose-built for this complexity — giving you a single platform to collect, calculate, verify, and report emissions data across the full GHG Protocol scope structure.
Cloud and data center Scope 2 tracking
Connect your AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud usage data alongside colocation utility invoices. Greenplaces calculates both market-based and location-based Scope 2 emissions, applies renewable energy certificate (REC) adjustments, and produces the methodology documentation your verifier needs.
SB 253 and SB 261 compliance
California’s climate disclosure laws apply to most major technology companies operating in the state. Greenplaces structures your emissions data and risk reporting for both mandates — with audit-ready documentation and annual disclosure support built into the platform.
CDP and TCFD reporting
From CDP climate questionnaire responses to TCFD-aligned financial risk disclosure, Greenplaces maps your emissions and climate data to every framework your investors, clients, and board need — without rebuilding your reporting program each cycle.
Meet the team
Find Greenplaces at DCD>Connect New York
We’ll be at the Marriott Marquis connecting with sustainability, infrastructure, and finance leaders from software and technology companies who are building their carbon accounting programs — or looking to replace a manual process that no longer holds up to investor or regulatory scrutiny. If data center emissions are the hardest part of your reporting challenge, come find us.
Go deeper
Sustainability infrastructure for the companies building digital infrastructure
The companies designing tomorrow’s data centers and writing the software that runs on them are increasingly expected to lead on sustainability — not just aspire to it. Greenplaces gives technology organizations the carbon accounting foundation to report credibly, respond to client and investor demands, and demonstrate that responsible growth is part of how they operate.
