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I'd love for providers like DigitalOcean to show me the CO2e of any VM's + networking infrastructure I'm running. Optimally it'd include the entire LCA (so including manufacture).

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GCP and Cloudflare both have this fyi.

Can’t speak to Cloudflare, but Google partners with https://www.electricitymap.org for this functionality.

https://api.electricitymap.org/

(no affiliation, just a fan of their work)

What you can do is run powertop periodically to see what's consuming the most power, or running frequently thus waking up your cpu from sleep modes.

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