A review of data centers as prosumers in district energy systems: Renewable energy integration and waste heat reuse for district heating

P Huang, B Copertaro, X Zhang, J Shen, I Löfgren… - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
As large energy prosumers in district energy systems, on the one hand, data centers
consume a large amount of electricity to ensure the Information Technologies (IT) facilities …

Global trends, performance metrics, and energy reduction measures in datacom facilities

A Isazadeh, D Ziviani, DE Claridge - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, the demand for data center and network services has increased
dramatically. To meet this demand, global average rack power density has risen from 2.4 …

Architecture exploration for ambient energy harvesting nonvolatile processors

K Ma, Y Zheng, S Li, K Swaminathan… - 2015 IEEE 21st …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power
for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency …

Greenhadoop: leveraging green energy in data-processing frameworks

Í Goiri, K Le, TD Nguyen, J Guitart, J Torres… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Interest has been growing in powering datacenters (at least partially) with renewable or"
green" sources of energy, such as solar or wind. However, it is challenging to use these …

Greenslot: scheduling energy consumption in green datacenters

Í Goiri, K Le, ME Haque, R Beauchea… - Proceedings of 2011 …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose GreenSlot, a parallel batch job scheduler for a datacenter
powered by a photovoltaic solar array and the electrical grid (as a backup). GreenSlot …

Survey of techniques and architectures for designing energy-efficient data centers

J Shuja, K Bilal, SA Madani, M Othman… - IEEE Systems …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud computing has emerged as the leading paradigm for information technology
businesses. Cloud computing provides a platform to manage and deliver computing …

Distribution grid electrical performance and emission analysis of combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP)-photovoltaic (PV)-based data center and residential …

I Keskin, G Soykan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
As the number of data centers is increasing worldwide, there are concerns about their
growing electricity demand on power grids and its impact on the environment. These …

Sustainable cloud data centers: a survey of enabling techniques and technologies

J Shuja, A Gani, S Shamshirband, RW Ahmad… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cloud computing services have gained tremendous popularity and widespread adoption
due to their flexible and on-demand nature. Cloud computing services are hosted in Cloud …

Greenware: Greening cloud-scale data centers to maximize the use of renewable energy

Y Zhang, Y Wang, X Wang - Middleware 2011: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th …, 2011 - Springer
To reduce the negative environmental implications (eg, CO 2 emission and global warming)
caused by the rapidly increasing energy consumption, many Internet service operators have …

Carbon-aware energy capacity planning for datacenters

C Ren, D Wang, B Urgaonkar… - 2012 IEEE 20th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Datacenters are facing increasing pressure to cap their carbon footprints at low cost. Recent
work has shown the significant environmental benefits of using renewable energy for …