# What are the emissions of running an ATM?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/bank-atm-electricity-emissions-per-machine

An ATM kiosk's emissions are mostly the air conditioner keeping the room cool, plus the machine, lights and UPS. Multiply the kiosk's units by 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh. If a site owner pays the bill and it is in your rent, it still needs counting, often as an estimate.

## Per kiosk

- Separate meter, if any.
- Otherwise rated load times hours, labelled as an estimate.
- Diesel, if a shared genset backs it.

## Outsourced ATMs

ATMs run by a managed service provider sit in the bank's Scope 3 unless the bank pays the power bill.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads electricity bills (CEA grid factor 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh, CO2 Baseline Database version 21.0) and diesel, LPG and gas invoices (IPCC 2006 defaults) into a dated, fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record for each site. Intensity per unit uses the activity count you enter, and estimates are labelled as estimates.

- [Bank branch footprint](https://senseible.earth/answers/bank-branch-carbon-footprint-calculation)
- [AC set at 24 degrees](https://senseible.earth/answers/ac-temperature-setpoint-24-savings)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard), [CEA CO2 Baseline Database for the Indian Power Sector](https://cea.nic.in/cdm-co2-baseline-database/?lang=en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.