Bringing Carbon Awareness to Multi-cloud Application Delivery
Diptyaroop Maji, Ben Pfaff, Vipin P R, Rajagopal Sreenivasan, Victor Firoiu, Sreeram Iyer, Colleen Josephson, Zhelong Pan, Ramesh K. Sitaraman · 2023
Data centers consume roughly 1--2% of the world's electricity, with the majority of it attributed to compute, making the computing industry a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions. Resources in data centers typically focus on providing high performance and availability, but the question of sustainability in managing these distributed resources often goes unnoticed over these other metrics. This problem will only exacerbate as the data center computing demand continues to increase.