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Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly prevalent in cloud-based platforms, propelled by the introduction of AI-based consumer and enterprise services. LLM inference requests in particular account for up to 90% of total LLM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 H. Moore , S. Qi , D. Milojicic , C. Bash , S. Pasricha

The energy consumption of Data Centers (DCs) is a very important figure for the telecommunications operators, not only in terms of cost, but also in terms of operational reliability. A relation between the energy consumption and the weather…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Georgios Smpokos , Mohamed A. Elshatshat , Athanasios Lioumpas , Ilias Iliopoulos

Recent breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence have triggered a surge in demand for machine learning training, which poses significant cost burdens and environmental challenges due to its substantial energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Siyue Zhang , Minrui Xu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Dusit Niyato

Machine learning solutions are rapidly adopted to enable a variety of key use cases, from conversational AI assistants to scientific discovery. This growing adoption is expected to increase the associated lifecycle carbon footprint,…

In recent years, cloud service providers have been building and hosting datacenters across multiple geographical locations to provide robust services. However, the geographical distribution of datacenters introduces growing pressure to both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sirui Qi , Dejan Milojicic , Cullen Bash , Sudeep Pasricha

The exponential growth in demand for digital services drives massive datacenter energy consumption and negative environmental impacts. Promoting sustainable solutions to pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges is crucial.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Vanamala Venkataswamy , Jake Grigsby , Andrew Grimshaw , Yanjun Qi

As Exascale computing becomes a reality, the energy needs of compute nodes in cloud data centers will continue to grow. A common approach to reducing this energy demand is to limit the power consumption of hardware components when workloads…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Akhilesh Raj , Swann Perarnau , Aniruddha Gokhale

Cloud providers, like Amazon, offer their data centers' computational and storage capacities for lease to paying customers. High electricity consumption, associated with running a data center, not only reflects on its carbon footprint, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Michele Mazzucco , Dmytro Dyachuk , Ralph Deters

This study presents a real-time energy management framework for hybrid community microgrids integrating photovoltaic, wind, battery energy storage systems, diesel generators, and grid interconnection. The proposed approach formulates the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Moslem Uddin , Huadong Mo , Daoyi Dong

Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) has been recognized as a fundamental function of autonomous driving, in which platoon stability and energy efficiency are outstanding challenges that are difficult to accommodate in real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Min Hua , Dong Chen , Kun Jiang , Fanggang Zhang , Jinhai Wang , Bo Wang , Quan Zhou , Hongming Xu

Serverless computing simplifies cloud deployment but introduces new challenges in managing service latency and carbon emissions. Reducing cold-start latency requires retaining warm function instances, while minimizing carbon emissions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Bowen Sun , Christos D. Antonopoulos , Evgenia Smirni , Bin Ren , Nikolaos Bellas , Spyros Lalis

The growing scale and complexity of modern data centers present major challenges in balancing energy efficiency with outage risk. Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) shows strong potential for intelligent control, its deployment in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qingang Zhang , Yuejun Yan , Guangyu Wu , Siew-Chien Wong , Jimin Jia , Zhaoyang Wang , Yonggang Wen

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

Connected and Automated Hybrid Electric Vehicles have the potential to reduce fuel consumption and travel time in real-world driving conditions. The eco-driving problem seeks to design optimal speed and power usage profiles based upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhaoxuan Zhu , Nicola Pivaro , Shobhit Gupta , Abhishek Gupta , Marcello Canova

This paper introduces DiffCarl, a diffusion-modeled carbon- and risk-aware reinforcement learning algorithm for intelligent operation of multi-microgrid systems. With the growing integration of renewables and increasing system complexity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yunyi Zhao , Wei Zhang , Cheng Xiang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Shuhua Gao

Natural climate solutions (NCS) offer an approach to mitigating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, monitoring the carbon drawdown of ecosystems over large geographic areas remains challenging. Eddy-flux covariance towers provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jacob Searcy , Anish Dulal , Scott Bridgham , Ashley Cordes , Lillian Aoki , Brendan Bohannan , Qing Zhu , Lucas C. R. Silva

Amidst the climate crisis, the massive introduction of renewable energy sources has brought tremendous challenges to both the power grid and its surrounding markets. As datacenters have become ever-larger and more powerful, they play an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Hongyu He

This paper studies a model for online job scheduling in green datacenters. In green datacenters, resource availability depends on the power supply from the renewables. Intermittent power supply from renewables leads to intermittent resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Vanamala Venkataswamy

Global decarbonisation targets and tightening market pressures demand maritime logistics solutions that are simultaneously efficient, sustainable, and equitable. We introduce EcoFair-CH-MARL, a constrained hierarchical multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Saad Alqithami

Addressing global challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions and resource inequity demands advanced AI-driven coordination among autonomous agents. We propose CH-MARL (Constrained Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning), a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Saad Alqithami