carbon accounting

Baseline Footprint

The creation of aysra required cloud compute and development time, estimated at approximately 1 kg CO₂e.

To account for this, aysra purchased 10 verified carbon offsets, representing 10 metric tons of CO₂e and more than 100× the estimated footprint.

The offsets support the Brusque Landfill Gas Project in Brazil (VCS4138, vintage 2022), which captures landfill methane that would otherwise reach the atmosphere. They are avoided-emission offsets, not permanent removal.

Ongoing Commitment

As aysra grows, it will purchase verified, permanent carbon removal equal to at least 1,000% of operational compute emissions.

This multiplier exists to:

• account for measurement uncertainty
• account for usage volatility
• align infrastructure growth with long-term atmospheric responsibility

Carbon commitments are tied to system usage, not revenue.

Toward this commitment, aysra retired one tonne of biochar carbon removal from Wakefield Biochar Facility 2 in Brunswick, Georgia (Puro.earth, vintage 2024) on September 21, 2026.

Measurement Boundary

current scope includes

• cloud compute attributable to ingestion and user queries
• database storage infrastructure
• background processing related to data maintenance

current scope excludes

• user device electricity consumption
• embodied emissions from hardware manufacturing
• employee commuting (not material at current scale)

As measurement precision improves, scope may expand.

Removal Standards

Future purchases will prioritize:

• durable storage (100+ years)
• verified removal methodologies
• finite-supply removal projects
• clear public documentation

Permanent removal is the standard going forward because avoided emissions do not reverse existing atmospheric carbon.