Toward a systematic survey for carbon neutral data centers

Z Cao, X Zhou, H Hu, Z Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers are experiencing unprecedented growth as the fourth industrial revolution's
supporting pillars and the engine for the future digitalized world. However, data centers are …

Integrating renewable energy resources into the smart grid: Recent developments in information and communication technologies

MH Rehmani, M Reisslein, A Rachedi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rising energy costs, losses in the present-day electricity grid, risks from nuclear power
generation, and global environmental changes are motivating a transformation of the …

Reducing the Carbon Impact of Generative AI Inference (today and in 2035)

AA Chien, L Lin, H Nguyen, V Rao, T Sharma… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Generative AI, exemplified in ChatGPT, Dall-E 2, and Stable Diffusion, are exciting new
applications consuming growing quantities of computing. We study the compute, energy …

Digitalization and environment governance: does internet development reduce environmental pollution?

S Ren, Y Hao, H Wu - Journal of Environmental Planning and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the era of information economy, the integration of the internet and traditional industries is
pushing the rapid transformation of the world economy in a more innovative, smarter, and …

Chasing carbon: The elusive environmental footprint of computing

U Gupta, YG Kim, S Lee, J Tse, HHS Lee… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given recent algorithm, software, and hardware innovation, computing has enabled a
plethora of new applications. As computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, however, so …

Carbon-aware computing for datacenters

A Radovanović, R Koningstein… - … on Power Systems, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The amount of CO emitted per kilowatt-hour on an electricity grid varies by time of day and
substantially varies by location due to the types of generation. Networked collections of …

Carbon explorer: A holistic framework for designing carbon aware datacenters

B Acun, B Lee, F Kazhamiaka, K Maeng… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technology companies reduce their datacenters' carbon footprint by investing in renewable
energy generation and receiving credits from power purchase agreements. Annually …

Energy-efficient information and communication infrastructures in the smart grid: A survey on interactions and open issues

M Erol-Kantarci, HT Mouftah - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart grid has modernized the way electricity is generated, transported, distributed, and
consumed by integrating advanced sensing, communications, and control in the day-to-day …

Renewable and cooling aware workload management for sustainable data centers

Z Liu, Y Chen, C Bash, A Wierman, D Gmach… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Recently, the demand for data center computing has surged, increasing the total energy
footprint of data centers worldwide. Data centers typically comprise three subsystems: IT …

Greening geographical load balancing

Z Liu, M Lin, A Wierman, SH Low… - ACM SIGMETRICS …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs.
Recently," geographical load balancing" has been suggested to reduce energy cost by …