Today · 2024
460TWh
What the world's data centres used last year
More electricity than the whole of France uses in a year.
What it means · Roughly the carbon footprint of ~100 million cars driven for a year.
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The problem
The internet is heavier than it looks.
Every streamed video, AI query, and cloud sync emits carbon. Most "green" claims online are unverifiable, one-time, and disconnected from the user actually causing the load.
By 2030
1,000+TWh
Projected demand in just 6 years
More than double today — mostly to power AI.
What it means · Adds the emissions of a mid-sized country to the atmosphere — every year.
Right now
~0%
Of this is visible to everyday users
You stream, chat, scroll — the carbon cost stays hidden.
What it means · An average web user causes ~400 kg of CO₂ a year without ever seeing it.
In plain English: the internet now runs on a power grid the size of a country — and it's set to double. Every click, query, and stream adds CO₂ to the air. Today, almost nobody sees that cost, and almost no one pays for it.
Invisible footprint
What a single user emits — without ever knowing.
36 g
CO₂ per user
1 hour of HD streaming
4.3 g
CO₂ per prompt
1 AI chat query
20 g
CO₂ per transfer
1 GB cloud sync
15 kg
CO₂ baseline
Avg SaaS user / yr
Sources: IEA Data Centres & Data Transmission Networks (2024), Stanford HAI AI Energy Report (2024).
Sources
- 2024 data-centre electricity: IEA, Energy and AI (2025). Global electricity generation supplying data centres reached ~460 TWh in 2024 — roughly 1.5% of global electricity consumption, and more than the total annual electricity use of France.
- 2030 & 2035 projections: IEA, Energy and AI Base Case (2025). Data-centre electricity demand is projected to exceed 1,000 TWh by 2030 and reach ~1,300 TWh by 2035 — more than doubling in six years, with AI as the primary driver.
- User awareness: Qualitative framing — the carbon cost of digital activity is fully externalised and invisible to end users.
The status quo
Greenwashing as usual
- One-off carbon credits bought years ago
- Vague "we plant trees" with no proof
- Offsets disconnected from real usage
- Certifications no customer can verify
Clean Compute
A verifiable per-user commitment
- Recurring, per-user monthly commitment
- Each tree tagged, geo-located, monitored
- Funded by the user actually causing load
- Public impact page + one-click verify badge
How $2 closes the loop
User load
Streaming · AI · sync
1 tree / user / mo
Tagged & geo-located
Verified badge
One-click public proof
How it works
Certification with the tree planting built in.
One commitment, one monthly fee. Clean Compute handles the reforestation, the verification, and the public proof — so being certified means trees are actually going in the ground.
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Apply
Tell us about your platform, your active-user count, and the trees-per-user commitment you want to make each month.
02
Get certified
We review your application, lock in your monthly commitment, and issue your Clean Compute certification — tree planting is included from day one.
03
We plant the trees
Every month we fund and plant verified trees with our reforestation partners on your behalf — proportional to your active users. Every cycle is logged and auditable.
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Display the badge
Embed your Clean Compute certified badge on your site. Visitors click through to your live, public impact page — the forest you funded, growing in real time.
Impact calculator
From net emitter to net forest.
Pick the kind of product you ship and how many users you have. We'll estimate the carbon footprint and show exactly where $2-a-tree puts you on the climate scale.
Light compute, mostly dashboards, docs, and CRUD.
Monthly active users
202,50010,000
Trees planted0.00
01 (neutral)20
Our plan is $2 / user / month = 1 tree. Even a fraction of a tree per user can flip an entire SaaS carbon-positive.
Your climate position
Net Emitter
Your users emit more than your forest absorbs.
Net emitterNeutral20× positive
Footprint
300 kg
CO₂ / year
Offset
0 kg
CO₂ / year
Net
-300 kg
CO₂ / year
Trees / year
0
0 / mo
At $40/mo, you'd plant 0 trees a year — covering 0% of your footprint.
Footprint figures are industry averages. Final offset volumes are verified with our reforestation partners.
The impact of 1 tree / user / month
What carbon neutral actually looks like.
One tree per user per month doesn't just cancel your footprint — it creates a measurable, living forest. Here's what that scales to.
120,000
Trees planted / year
A living forest growing every month. Each tree tagged, monitored, and verified.
2.6k t
CO₂ pulled from the atmosphere / year
That's your entire platform's footprint — and then some — locked away in solid wood and soil.
~300
Acres of new forest / year
At ~400 trees per acre, that's real habitat, biodiversity, and restored land.
Real-world equivalents
Put another way, that's like…
573 cars
Cars off the road
Equivalent to removing a gas car from the road for a full year.
517 homes
Homes powered
Enough clean offset to power an average home for a year.
4.1k flights
Flights offset
Equals the carbon from a round-trip NYC–London flight.
550.0M charges
Phone charges
More than enough to charge a smartphone every day for a year.
10,000
Active users
120,000
Trees / year
2.6k t
CO₂ sequestered
Carbon neutral
+ verifiable forest
Sources & methodology
- Vehicle emissions: U.S. EPA, Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle. Average gasoline passenger vehicle emits ~4.6 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
- Home energy: U.S. EPA, Household Carbon Footprint Calculator. Average U.S. home energy use produces ~5.1 metric tons of CO₂ per year.
- Flight emissions: ICAO Carbon Emissions Calculator and industry carbon-offset standards. Round-trip NYC–London economy flight ≈ 0.5–0.8 metric tons CO₂ per passenger (direct fuel burn); ~0.65 t used here as a mid-range estimate.
- Smartphone charging: Based on ~12 Wh per full charge and U.S. average grid carbon intensity of ~0.4 kg CO₂/kWh, yielding ~0.0048 kg CO₂ per charge.
- Tree sequestration: Arbor Day Foundation / One Tree Planted forestry estimates. Young reforestation trees in temperate/subtropical zones sequester ~20–25 kg CO₂ per year; 22 kg used here as a conservative average.
- Forest density: Standard reforestation planting density of ~400 trees per acre (varies by species and region).
Why certify
Built for the platforms shaping the internet.
Verified, not vague
Every certified platform commits to a public, auditable per-user tree count — no greenwashing.
Real reforestation
We partner with vetted planting organizations. Trees are mapped, monitored, and replaced if lost.
Earn user trust
Display the Clean Compute badge to show customers their subscription actively restores ecosystems.
Marketing-ready impact
Auto-generated impact pages and embeds turn sustainability into a story your team can share.
The price of doing good
Less than a coffee.
A whole tree.
For just $2 per user, per month, Clean Compute certifies your platform and plants a verified tree every month for every active user — reforestation, monitoring, and your impact badge all in one. No separate vendors, no offsets to chase.
One price. One tree. Every user.
$2/ user / month
1 verified tree planted every month, for every user
- Direct funding to verified reforestation partners
- Each tree is tagged, verified, and protected
- Public impact page + verified badge included
- No setup fees, cancel anytime
Billed monthly · Cancel anytime
What $2 buys in your stack
You're already burning more than this per user on dashboards nobody opens. Redirect $2 into the one line item your customers will actually screenshot.
~$6
Datadog / observability
Per host, per month
~$4
Intercom seat
Per tracked contact
~$5
Segment / analytics
Per monthly user
$2
Clean Compute
A real tree. In real soil.
Erases a digital footprint
A single tree absorbs ~22 kg of CO₂ per year — more than enough to offset the average user's annual streaming, scrolling, and cloud-storage emissions.
Restores living ecosystems
Unlike paper carbon credits, your $2 funds real saplings in the ground — rebuilding soil, watersheds, and habitat for pollinators and wildlife.
Compounds every month
Forests grow. 1,000 subscribers becomes 12,000 trees in year one, 60,000 in year five — a measurable canopy your brand helped create.
The verified badge
A mark your customers can trust.
Once certified, you receive a verified badge and a public impact page. Both link to a live record of trees planted on behalf of your users — refreshed every month, signed by Clean Compute.
- Embeddable HTML & React snippets
- Public, tamper-evident impact ledger
- Annual third-party verification
FAQ
Questions about certification, counting & verification
Clean Compute certifies online platforms that commit to funding verified reforestation proportional to their active user base every month. The badge on your site proves you meet a public, auditable per-user tree standard — not vague offsetting promises.
We use your reported monthly active users (MAU) as the baseline. You choose a commitment tier (for example, 1 tree per 10 users, or 1 tree per user). Our dashboard syncs with your MAU each cycle and calculates the exact planting order. All counts are logged and match your verified badge number.
We partner with vetted reforestation organizations that map, monitor, and replace lost trees. Planting sites are selected for ecological impact and community benefit. You receive geo-tagged reports each cycle.
Most applications are reviewed within 3–5 business days. Once approved, your first planting cycle begins within 7 days and your badge goes live immediately. We also run quarterly audits to ensure ongoing compliance.
Yes. Every certified platform gets a public impact page showing total trees planted, CO₂ equivalents, and planting locations. You can embed this page or link to it from your footer, pricing page, or sustainability section.
Your monthly commitment scales with your MAU. If active users decrease, the next cycle adjusts automatically — you only plant for the users you have. No penalties, no rigid lock-ins.
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