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Embodied impacts

Reuse operational energy and embodied impact references for digital equipment.

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Associate an equipment category with energy consumption or an embodied impact factor.

Entries
13
Period covered
Not a time series
File Git modification
2025-06-17
Source refresh
Not recorded per entry

The Git date reflects the last committed change, not necessarily local edits or new observations.

Read the unit field of each entry. Embodied factors may be allocated per second of use (/s).

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Sources and limitations

Digital equipment

Modeling references, not measurements of individual devices. Do not interpret a /s factor as the total embodied impact of a device.

Field dictionary

FieldDefinition
descriptionSource description
unitUnit applying to this entry
gwpClimate change · kg CO₂e
apAcidification · kg SO₂e
ctueFreshwater ecotoxicity · CTUe
ctuh-cHuman toxicity, cancer · CTUh
irIonising radiation · kg U235e
ctuh-ncHuman toxicity, non-cancer · CTUh
pmParticulate matter · kg PM2.5e
wuWater use · m³
adpeResource depletion · kg Sbe
adpfFossil resource depletion; verify source unit
epfFreshwater eutrophication; verify source unit
epmMarine eutrophication; verify source unit
eptTerrestrial eutrophication; verify source unit
gwpbBiogenic climate change; verify source unit
gwptTotal climate change; verify source unit
gwpluLand-use climate change; verify source unit
luLand use; verify source unit
odpOzone depletion; verify source unit
pocpPhotochemical ozone formation; verify source unit
mipsMaterial intensity; verify source unit

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These data are published under ODbL 1.0. Read the license for reuse, attribution and sharing conditions. ODbL 1.0 ↗

Digital4Better Open Data — equipment/embodied.json · ODbL 1.0 · https://github.com/digital4better/data

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const data = await response.json();
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