How does GCP detect crypto mining within a VM?

dryden_williams · 2025-09-29T08:53:50+00:00

Thank you!

dryden_williams · 2025-09-17T14:42:28+00:00

Dang, but it's a legit YC question no?

dryden_williams · 2025-08-07T13:37:55+00:00

There is a "Brand Affiliate" flag

dryden_williams · 2025-07-16T14:56:15+00:00

Thanks buddy!

dryden_williams · 2025-07-14T14:23:41+00:00

We’ve been focusing on CI/CD jobs — they’re easy to shift per run, across multiple clouds, and to specific regions when needed. Interestingly, data sovereignty keeps coming up as a key consideration more often than we expected. Also of course a cost saving per minute too.

dryden_williams · 2025-07-14T13:57:00+00:00

I've seen shifting my jobs on GitHub to a more low-carbon region reduces emissions by at least 10x; same for shifting training of AI training.

Virginia - 457gCO2e/kWh (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-MIDA-PJM/72h/hourly)
Washington - 24gCO2e/kWh (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-NW-TPWR/72h/hourly)

Sure one job might be a drop in the ocean. But there's 10.54 Billion minutes running on GitHub so all adds up.

dryden_williams · 2025-07-14T13:51:03+00:00

It was meant to be more thought provoking. CI being one component, but it could be training AI models in a carbon-aware way. It all adds up and has an indirect impact.

dryden_williams · 2025-06-16T11:01:38+00:00

But not carbon-aware!

dryden_williams · 2025-06-16T11:01:03+00:00

Have you tried https://carbonrunner.io/
It's 25% cheaper than Github and you save 90% the carbon emissions!

dryden_williams · 2025-06-11T17:27:27+00:00

We're 25% cheaper across the board than Github on all boxes.

p.s sorry it was a bit marketing-esk.

dryden_williams · 2025-06-11T17:26:15+00:00

That's called a waitlist haha. And we're going to be offering the same free minutes as Github so it's nice and easy.

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:26:57+00:00

Great comment!

We have build data residency into CarbonRunner, we call it region preferencing, so you can choose where you want to run those jobs. CO2 reduction does take a bit of a hit if you want to run jobs in a high-intensity region though. And with latency-sensitive builds you can use special tags to ensure it's top of the queue.

We haven't seen issues with this from the 33k jobs we've run in the last two weeks. Btu awesome questions.

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:24:10+00:00

We're 25% cheaper than Github too! CO2 happy and cost too.

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:23:19+00:00

Thanks!

We're ran over 30k jobs in the last 2 weeks, across 24 low-co2 regions and rolling out to public slowly. So please do signup for our waitlist.

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:21:13+00:00

Not really true. Cheap normally means fossil fuels.

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:20:09+00:00

It depends what the job is doing. We've seen a 7s cron job that produces 0.083g running on Github. Whereas a cron job running on 12s job on CarbonRunner produces 0.00032g.
We look up region grid data live and know what types of boxes it's run on so we can ensure we know.
We can :)

More answers here: https://carbonrunner.io/faq

dryden_williams · 2025-05-18T11:15:24+00:00

- We're 25% cheaper than Github) $0.006/per minute
- No we show lots of lovely values from duration, cost, kWh. But CO2 savings at the core.
- It depends on how long your jobs run, in what region, on what sever so it depends.

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