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Cloud platforms' rapid growth is raising significant concerns about their carbon emissions. To reduce emissions, future cloud platforms will need to increase their reliance on renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, which have…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Abel Souza , Noman Bashir , Jorge Murillo , Walid Hanafy , Qianlin Liang , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy

The rapid development of renewable energy in the energy Internet is expected to alleviate the increasingly severe power problem in data centers, such as the huge power costs and pollution. This paper focuses on the eco-friendly power cost…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Chunlei Sun , Xiangming Wen , Zhaoming Lu , Wenpeng Jing , Michele Zorzi

AI data centers are increasingly becoming tightly coupled compute--energy systems, where workload placement, cooling demand, electricity procurement, storage operation, and carbon emissions interact over time. This paper studies…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Johnny R. Zhang , Gaoyuan Du , Qianyi Sun , Shiqi Wang , Jiaxuan Li , Xian Sun

Cloud providers are adapting datacenter (DC) capacity to reduce carbon emissions. With hyperscale datacenters exceeding 100 MW individually, and in some grids exceeding 15% of power load, DC adaptation is large enough to harm power grid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Liuzixuan Lin , Andrew A. Chien

Rapid adoption of Cloud computing for hosting services and its success is primarily attributed to its attractive features such as elasticity, availability and pay-as-you-go pricing model. However, the huge amount of energy consumed by cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Minxian Xu , Adel N. Toosi , Rajkumar Buyya

Training large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models demands significant computational power and energy, leading to increased carbon footprint with potential environmental repercussions. This paper delves into the challenges of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jieming Bian , Lei Wang , Shaolei Ren , Jie Xu

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

This paper presents a methodology for allocating energy consumption to multiple users of shared data center machines, infrastructure, and software. Google uses this methodology to provide carbon reporting data for enterprise customers of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ian Schneider , Taylor Mattia

The accelerating expansion of AI workloads is colliding with an energy landscape increasingly dominated by intermittent renewable generation. While vast quantities of zero-carbon energy are routinely curtailed, today's centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Giuseppe Tomei , Andrea Mayer , Giuseppe Alcini , Stefano Salsano

Modern multi GPU HPC systems expose substantial computational capacity, yet inefficient GPU allocation often leads to wasted energy and underutilization. In practice, GPU applications exhibit heterogeneous and nonlinear scaling, making it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhong Zheng , Michael E. Papka , Zhiling Lan

Cloud platforms' growing energy demand and carbon emissions are raising concern about their environmental sustainability. The current approach to enabling sustainable clouds focuses on improving energy-efficiency and purchasing carbon…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Noman Bashir , Tian Guo , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , David Irwin , Prashant Shenoy , Ramesh Sitaraman , Abel Souza , Adam Wierman

The rapid increase in computing demand and its corresponding energy consumption have focused attention on computing's impact on the climate and sustainability. Prior work proposes metrics that quantify computing's carbon footprint across…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Noman Bashir , Varun Gohil , Anagha Belavadi , Mohammad Shahrad , David Irwin , Elsa Olivetti , Christina Delimitrou

The increasingly wide application of Cloud Computing enables the consolidation of tens of thousands of applications in shared infrastructures. Thus, meeting the quality of service requirements of so many diverse applications in such shared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Lan Wang , Erol Gelenbe

We study carbon-aware smart charging in a fossil-dominated grid by coupling a simplified hydro-thermal-renewable dispatch model with a tractable linear charging scheduler. The case study is informed by Vietnam's regional data. Thermal units…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Giuseppe C. Calafiore , Luca Ambrosino , Khai Manh Nguyen , Minh Binh Vu , Riadh Zorgati , Laurent El Ghaoui

In this paper, a solution for sustainable cloud system is proposed and then implemented on a real testbed. The solution composes of optimization of a profit model and introduction of virtual carbon tax to limit environmental footprint of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet

The exploding power consumption of AI and cloud datacenters (DCs) intensifies the long-standing concerns about their carbon footprint, especially because DCs' need for constant power clashes with volatile renewable generation needed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Liuzixuan Lin , Andrew A. Chien

Quality of service (QoS) for a network is characterized in terms of various parameters specifying packet delay and loss tolerance requirements for the application. The unpredictable nature of the wireless channel demands for application of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 M. Majid Butt , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Bjorn Ottersten

Increasing demand for computing has lead to the development of large-scale, highly optimized data centers, which represent large loads in the electric power network. Many major computing and internet companies operate multiple data centers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Julia Lindberg , Bernard C. Lesieutre , Line Roald

Cloud Computing is a paradigm of both parallel processing and distributed computing. It offers computing facilities as a utility service in pay as par use manner. Virtualization, self service provisioning, elasticity and pay per use are the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Syed Arshad Ali , Mansaf Alam

With the increasing popularity of Internet-based services and applications, power efficiency is becoming a major concern for data center operators, as high electricity consumption not only increases greenhouse gas emissions, but also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Dmytro Dyachuk , Michele Mazzucco