Live data centre dashboard
Europe’s grid, hour by hour: when and where to run your load
Carbon intensity, day-ahead power prices and the cheapest, cleanest hours for flexible compute across the main European data-centre markets. Built for the people who schedule workloads, report grid emissions and choose sites.
Europe right now
Estimated carbon intensity of electricity generated in each market, and the day-ahead price for the current hour. Select a country to follow it down the page.
Current figures by market
A plain-text copy of the figures behind the dashboard. The interactive version below replaces it once it has loaded.
| Market | Carbon intensity, g CO2e/kWh | Day-ahead price, EUR/MWh | Renewable share, % | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 649 | 167.4 | 20 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| United Kingdom | 120 | n/a | 54 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST |
| France | 45 | 171.3 | 16 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Netherlands estimate too high: renewable output missing upstream | 601 | 169.6 | 0 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Ireland carbon only | 261 | n/a | 54 | 4 Oct 2026, 07:42 CEST delayed |
| Italy (North) | n/a | 182.0 | n/a | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Spain | 189 | n/a | 29 | 4 Oct 2026, 07:49 CEST delayed |
| Poland | 774 | n/a | 7 | 4 Oct 2026, 07:49 CEST delayed |
| Belgium estimate too high: nuclear output missing upstream | 408 | 170.1 | 12 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Austria | 228 | 182.0 | 57 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Switzerland | 40 | 192.1 | 25 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Norway (NO2) | 29 | 144.7 | 99 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Sweden (SE3) | 26 | n/a | 73 | 4 Oct 2026, 07:29 CEST delayed |
| Denmark (DK1) | 158 | 156.2 | 90 | 5 Oct 2026, 00:16 CEST delayed |
| Finland | 61 | n/a | 70 | 4 Oct 2026, 07:49 CEST delayed |
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The next 48 hours
Each bar is an hour. Height is the day-ahead price, colour is carbon intensity, and the outlined block is the best four-hour window still ahead.
Best hours to run flexible compute
Training runs, batch jobs, backups and re-indexing can move. This is how much carbon and money the best four hours save against the rest of the horizon.
Rules and efficiency
The dates that decide your reporting year, and where a site’s PUE sits against the Commission’s first data.
Great Britain, region by region
The national figure hides a wide spread. Forecast intensity per distribution region, cleanest first.
Why the spread matters
Scottish regions running on wind and hydro sit near zero while the south of England leans on gas and imports. A site in the same country can report very different location-based emissions depending on the region it draws from.
Reading the numbers
Regional values are forecasts for the current half hour, published by the system operator. They describe generation in the region, not the contracts a site has signed.
Method
Carbon intensity is a production-based estimate: each fuel’s output multiplied by a lifecycle emission factor, divided by total output. Imports and exports are not netted, so small, import-dependent markets can differ from consumption-based figures. Forward hours are projected from the renewable-share forecast and marked as estimates.
Sources
Generation, prices and renewable forecasts: Energy-Charts, Fraunhofer ISE (CC BY 4.0), with price data from national market operators. Great Britain: Carbon Intensity API (CC BY 4.0) and Elexon. Exchange rates: European Central Bank.
Use it
Prices are day-ahead wholesale values, not what a site pays. Nothing here is a scheduling guarantee or investment advice. Ireland has no published forward price or carbon forecast in the free source, and Belgium’s nuclear output is missing upstream, so its carbon estimate runs too high. Where a series is late it is marked as delayed.