I Built an AI Tool That Finds Wasted Cloud Spending — And Its Carbon Footprint. Published: True

The difficulty If you’re using Google Cloud, you’re probably paying for stuff you don’t need anymore—a server someone forgot to turn off, a storage disk someone forgot to delete, or an IP address someone forgot to release. "That waste is costing us money." It consumes electricity. It generates carbon emissions. Almost nobody tracks those alongside the cost. I wanted a tool that could find both problems simultaneously, without me having to think. So I made one. Live demo: https://greenops-dashboard-845589445410.us-central1.run.app/ Code: https://github.com/raghu-putta/greenops-agent How it works: 4 AI agents in a row Imagine an assembly line in which each worker has only one job: Carbon Scout scans your Google Cloud project and reports on everything that looks like it might be unused or forgotten—idle servers, unattached storage disks, and unused reserved IP addresses. GreenOps Analyzer takes that list and adds two numbers to each item: how much it’s costing you in dollars, and how much it’s costing the planet in carbon emissions. Optimization Executor takes each finding and makes it an action: stop this server, delete this disk, release this address. It shows you the plan first; it only changes if you say go. Report Generator rolls up the entire run into a downloadable report so you (or your boss or your sustainability team) have something nice to look at. Powered by: FastAPI (the web framework), Google’s Agent Development Kit (a library for building AI agents), Gemini 2.5 Pro (the AI model doing the reasoning), and Google Cloud Run (where it’s all running). The “bug” that was not a bug: The dashboard has a terminal-style live window that shows you what each agent is doing in real time, using a technique called Server-Sent Events (basically, the server streams updates to your browser one at a time instead of making you refresh). And then at some point that window just stopped showing anything. Nothing. My backend logs told me that the updates were still being sent,