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Fixed an issue that omitted Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions for a given region in a given month that has zero Scope 2 emissions due to 100% carbon free energy

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## Fix Fixed an issue that omitted Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions for a given region in a given month that has zero Scope 2 emissions due to 100% carbon free energy. Specifically, in July 2022, `northamerica-northeast1` had 100% of its electricity generated from hydro power for the month, resulting in no Scope 2 emissions for the month despite positive energy consumption to run the data center. However, there were Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions apportioned to the usage of this data center, but our data erroneously omitted them. As a fix, we have added the Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions back for any usage in `northamerica-northeast1` in July 2022, and will not omit such emissions going forward that have positive apportioned Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions but zero Scope 2 emissions. ## Change Electricity Maps (EM), our carbon emissions factors data source, is making improvements to their methodology that will affect carbon emissions data released beginning on December 15th. For a detailed description of the improvement, please see Electricity Maps blog post [here](https://www.electricitymaps.com/blog/increasing-the-precision-of-our-data-using-regional-emission-factors). In sum, EM will now be incorporating the efficiency and technology of power plants into consideration when calculating emission factors, increasing the precision of how emission factors are measured. It represents a data quality improvement, which will impact data for cost centers located in the United States and European Union. ## Change Updated carbon model to version 7 to reflect the above-mentioned changes.