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Major cloud providers such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon rely heavily on datacenters to support the ever-increasing demand for their computational and application services. However, the financial and carbon footprint related…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Rajkumar Buyya , Sukhpal Singh Gill

The exponential growth of data is making query processing increasingly critical for modern computing infrastructure, yet the environmental impact of database operations remains poorly understood and largely overlooked. This paper presents…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Michail Bachras , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Cloud computing drives innovation but also poses significant environmental challenges due to its high-energy consumption and carbon emissions. Data centers account for 2-4% of global energy usage, and the ICT sector's share of electricity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Federico Ruilova , Ernst Gunnar Gran , Sven-Arne Reinemo

Data centers have significant energy needs, both embodied and operational, affecting sustainability adversely. The current techniques and tools for collecting, aggregating, and reporting verifiable sustainability data are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Syed Rafiul Hussain , Patrick McDaniel , Anshul Gandhi , Kanad Ghose , Kartik Gopalan , Dongyoon Lee , Yu David Liu , Zhenhua Liu , Shuai Mu , Erez Zadok

Cloud computing has become a critical infrastructure for modern society, like electric power grids and roads. As the backbone of the modern economy, it offers subscription-based computing services anytime, anywhere, on a pay-as-you-go…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Rajkumar Buyya , Shashikant Ilager , Patricia Arroba

This study proposes a scalable Digital Twin framework for energy optimization in data centers.The framework integrates IoT-based data acquisition, cloud computing, and machine learning techniques to enable real-time monitoring, forecasting,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Raphael Hendrigo de Souza Gonçalves , Wendel Marcos dos Santos

Data center operators are typically faced with three significant problems when running their data centers, i.e., rising electricity bills, growing carbon footprints and unexpected power outages. To mitigate these issues, running data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Liang Yu , Tao Jiang , Yulong Zou

The rapid growth of data centers is increasing energy demand and widening the carbon gap in the ICT sector, as fossil fuels still dominate global energy production. Addressing this challenge requires collaboration across research, policy,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez , Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu , Miguel Peón-Quirós , David Atienza

As artificial intelligence (AI) models quickly spread and become more advanced, they are requiring an ever-increasing amount of data and compute capability, leading to a significant energy cost. Training and inference of AI models including…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Anirudh Shankar , Avhishek Chatterjee , Anjan Chakravorty

Data centers form a key part of the infrastructure upon which a variety of information technology services are built. They provide the capabilities of centralized repository for storage, management, networking and dissemination of data.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Mueen Uddin , Azizah Abdul Rahman

Data centers are large scale, energy-hungry infrastructure serving the increasing computational demands as the world is becoming more connected in smart cities. The emergence of advanced technologies such as cloud-based services, internet…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Leila Ismail , Huned Materwala

Monitoring energy behaviors in AI data centers is crucial, both to reduce their energy consumption and to raise awareness among their users which are key actors in the AI field. This paper shows a proof of concept of easy and lightweight…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Paul Gay , Éric Bilinski , Anne-Laure Ligozat

Modern data centers suffer from a growing carbon footprint due to insufficient support for environmental sustainability. While hardware accelerators and renewable energy have been utilized to enhance sustainability, addressing Quality of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Fan Chen

The deployment of business critical applications and information infrastructures are moving to the cloud. This means they are hosted in large scale data centers with other business applications and infrastructures with less (or none)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Roberto Baldoni , Mario Caruso , Adriano Cerocchi , Claudio Ciccotelli , Luca Montanari , Luca Nicoletti

The rapid growth of data volume brings big challenges to the data center computing, and energy efficiency is one of the most concerned problems. Researchers from various fields are now proposing solutions to green the data center…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Runlin Zhou , Yingjie Shi , Chunge Zhu , Fan Liu

An issue of great concern as it relates to global warming is power consumption and efficient use of computers especially in large data centers. Data centers have an important role in IT infrastructures because of their huge power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Aryan Azimzadeh , Nasseh Tabrizi

In the last decade, extended efforts have been poured into energy efficiency. Several energy consumption datasets were henceforth published, with each dataset varying in properties, uses and limitations. For instance, building energy…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yassine Himeur , Abdullah Alsalemi , Faycal Bensaali , Abbes Amira

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has significantly increased the electricity, water, and carbon demands of modern data centers, raising sustainability concerns. This study evaluates the environmental footprint of AI server…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Aadi Patel , Nikhil Mahalingam , Rusheen Patel

Climate change has become a major problem for humanity in the last two decades. One of the reasons that caused it, is our daily energy waste. People consume electricity in order to use home/work appliances and devices and also reach certain…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Stavros Mischos , Eleanna Dalagdi , Dimitris Vrakas

Energy systems generate vast amounts of data in extremely short time intervals, creating challenges for efficient data management. Traditional data management methods often struggle with scalability and accessibility, limiting their…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lunodzo J. Mwinuka , Massimo Cafaro , Lucas Pereira , Hugo Morais