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Progressing digitalization and increasing demand and use of software cause rises in energy- and resource consumption from information and communication technologies (ICT). This raises the issue of sustainability in ICT, which increasingly…

The cloud computing paradigm offers on-demand services over the Internet and supports a wide variety of applications. With the recent growth of Internet of Things (IoT) based applications the usage of cloud services is increasing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Sukhpal Singh Gill , Rajkumar Buyya

The environmental sustainability of Information Technology (IT) has emerged as a critical concern, driven by the need to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the context of cloud-native applications deployed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Andrea D'Iapico , Monica Vitali

Cloud computing is offering utility-oriented IT services to users worldwide. Based on a pay-as-you-go model, it enables hosting of pervasive applications from consumer, scientific, and business domains. However, data centers hosting Cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Rajkumar Buyya , Anton Beloglazov , Jemal Abawajy

The current emissions from computing are almost 4% of the world total. This is already more than emissions from the airline industry and are projected to rise steeply over the next two decades. By 2040 emissions from computing alone will…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wim Vanderbauwhede

This work is a positioning research paper for energy efficient building based on ICT solutions. Through the literature about the solutions for energy control of buildings during operational phase, a 3-layers model is proposed to integrate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Michael David , A. Aubry , W. Derigent

At present, a major concern regarding data centers is their extremely high energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. However, because of the over-provisioning of resources, the utilization of existing data centers is, in fact,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Zhiyong Liu

While researchers in both industry and academia are racing to build Quantum Computing (QC) platforms with viable performance and functionality, the environmental impacts of this endeavor, such as its carbon footprint, e-waste generation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Nivedita Arora , Prem Kumar

The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Benedikt Pittl , Werner Mach , Erich Schikuta

Cloud Computing paradigm has revolutionized IT industry and be able to offer computing as the fifth utility. With the pay-as-you-go model, cloud computing enables to offer the resources dynamically for customers anytime. Drawing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Qiheng Zhou , Minxian Xu , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Chengxi Gao , Wenhong Tian , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

Thanks to the availability of massive amounts of data, computing resources, and advanced algorithms, AI has entered nearly every sector. This has sparked significant investment and interest, particularly in building data centers with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pandu Devarakota , Nicolas Tsesmetzis , Faruk O. Alpak , Apurva Gala , Detlef Hohl

An increasing amount of data is being injected into the network from IoT (Internet of Things) applications. Many of these applications, developed to improve society's quality of life, are latency-critical and inject large amounts of data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Patricia Arroba , Rajkumar Buyya , Román Cárdenas , José L. Risco-Martín , José M. Moya

Arbitrary usage of cloud computing, either private or public, can lead to uneconomical energy consumption in data processing, storage and communication. Hence, green cloud computing solutions aim not only to save energy but also reduce…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-12-07 M. N. Hulkury , M. R. Doomun

The sustainable development strategy in the management of information and communication technology (ICT) is an advanced research sector which provides a theoretical framework for integrating social and environmental responsibilities of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Rachid Hba , Abderrazak Bakkas , Abdellah El Manouar , Mohammed Abdou Janati Idrissi

The soaring energy demands of large-scale software ecosystems and cloud data centers, accelerated by the intensive training and deployment of large language models, have driven energy consumption and carbon footprint to unprecedented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jialin Yang , Zainab Saad , Jiajun Wu , Xiaoguang Niu , Henry Leung , Steve Drew

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

Data centers are carbon-intensive enterprises due to their massive energy consumption, and it is estimated that data center industry will account for 8\% of global carbon emissions by 2030. However, both technological and policy instruments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhiwei Cao , Xin Zhou , Han Hu , Zhi Wang , Yonggang Wen

The demand for research supporting the development of new policy frameworks for energy saving and conservation has never been more critical. As climate change accelerates and its impacts become increasingly severe, the need for sustainable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-28 A. Fronzetti Colladon , A. L. Pisello , L. F. Cabeza

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the percentage of global emissions attributable to Information Systems is expected to further increase in the coming years, due to a proliferation of Internet-connected devices omnipresent in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nadia Gamez , Jose-Miguel Horcas , Monica Pinto , Lidia Fuentes

Major innovations in computing have been driven by scaling up computing infrastructure, while aggressively optimizing operating costs. The result is a network of worldwide datacenters that consume a large amount of energy, mostly in an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Walid A. Hanafy , Roozbeh Bostandoost , Noman Bashir , David Irwin , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Prashant Shenoy