Energy Efficient Service Delivery in Clouds in Compliance with the Kyoto Protocol

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel model for energy-efficient cloud service delivery that complies with the Kyoto Protocol by integrating CO2 trading schemes into data center operations and SLAs.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach for modeling data centers with CO2 caps and trading credits, enabling Kyoto compliance in cloud computing.

Findings

Modeling data centers with CO2 caps is feasible.

CO2 trading schemes can be integrated with SLAs.

Foundation for future Kyoto-compliant scheduling and pricing.

Abstract

Cloud computing is revolutionizing the ICT landscape by providing scalable and efficient computing resources on demand. The ICT industry - especially data centers, are responsible for considerable amounts of CO2 emissions and will very soon be faced with legislative restrictions, such as the Kyoto protocol, defining caps at different organizational levels (country, industry branch etc.) A lot has been done around energy efficient data centers, yet there is very little work done in defining flexible models considering CO2. In this paper we present a first attempt of modeling data centers in compliance with the Kyoto protocol. We discuss a novel approach for trading credits for emission reductions across data centers to comply with their constraints. CO2 caps can be integrated with Service Level Agreements and juxtaposed to other computing commodities (e.g. computational power, storage), setting a foundation for implementing next-generation schedulers and pricing models that support Kyoto-compliant CO2 trading schemes.