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Table 1 Availability assessment of primary data item - users - required under the GHG Protocol for assessment of ICT emissions

From: Assessing the suitability of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for calculation of emissions from public cloud computing workloads

GHG Protocol Description

Data available to Cloud Vendor customers?

“use profiles and number of users at any given period of time”

Yes – if relevant, this can be calculated based on application usage over a given period. Transactions may be an alternative (below).