Sustainable Computing: Green Technologies in Cloud Infrastructure

IRJMETS Pulication, 2022

The future of the IT industry is at the crossroads, and unless there is no sustainable solution formulated within the industry, it would potentially be the end of the planet. Data centers within the industry consume most of the energy, and there is an immediate need for these power centers to switch towards green and clean energy. This study investigates the dynamics of Green Cloud Computing services and performs a literature review to examine the need, barriers, and trends of green cloud computing. By investigating the characteristics, barriers, and trends, the study proposes that the future of IT is deeply entrenched with green energy. The results of the study note that green cloud computing can be highly effective in enhancing the benefits of cloud computing further and mitigating its effects on the environment.

International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing, 2021

Cloud computing is a widely acceptable computing environment, and its services are also widely available. But the consumption of energy is one of the major issues of cloud computing as a green computing. Because many electronic resources like processing devices, storage devices in both client and server site and network computing devices like switches, routers are the main elements of energy consumption in cloud and during computation power are also required to cool the IT load in cloud computing. So due to the high consumption, cloud resources define the high energy cost during the service activities of cloud computing and contribute more carbon emissions to the atmosphere. These two issues inspired the cloud companies to develop such renewable cloud sustainability regulations to control the energy cost and the rate of CO 2 emission. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a green computing environment through saving the energy of cloud resources using the specific approach of identifying the requirement of computing resources during the computation of cloud services. Only required computing resources remain ON (working state), and the rest become OFF (sleep/hibernate state) to reduce the energy uses in the cloud data centers. This approach will be more efficient than other available approaches based on cloud service scheduling or migration and virtualization of services in the cloud network. It reduces the cloud data center's energy usages by applying a power management scheme (ON/OFF) on computing resources. The proposed approach helps to convert the cloud computing in green computing through identifying an appropriate number of cloud computing resources like processing nodes, servers, disks and switches/routers during any service computation on cloud to handle the energy-saving or environmental impact.

Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances - GJETA, 2025

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has propelled global data center energy consumption to 415 terawatthours in 2024, with projections doubling to 945 TWh by 2030, driven by AI's computational intensity and cooling demands. This review synthesizes cutting-edge solutions for sustainable AI-driven data centers, emphasizing renewable energy (solar, wind, hydropower) and advanced cooling technologies (liquid cooling, immersion cooling, heat reuse). Through global case studies, such as Google's solar-powered facilities, and African innovations, like Kenya's geothermalpowered centers, it showcases scalable integrations reducing energy use by 20-30%. In Africa, where data center capacity grows 25% annually, abundant renewables and water-efficient cooling address high-temperature challenges, yet infrastructure, cost, and equity barriers persist. Future pathways, including eco-friendly coolants and small modular reactors, are proposed alongside policy reforms to ensure net-zero alignment. This article calls for interdisciplinary collaboration to bridge digital divides, offering actionable insights for researchers, industry, and policymakers to drive sustainable AI infrastructure, particularly in Africa's burgeoning digital landscape.

International Journal of Scientific Research & Engineering Trends , 2023

As the demand for cloud computing services continues to soar, concerns about its environmental impact have become more pronounced. This research-oriented descriptive article aims to address this issue by proposing a comprehensive framework for Green Cloud Computing. The framework focuses on minimizing the environmental footprint of cloud computing by optimizing energy consumption and resource usage. Through an exploration of key principles, challenges, and real-world applications, this article provides insights into building a sustainable and efficient cloud infrastructure. Keywords, relevant studies, and references are included to serve as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field.

— while searching for information about cloud computing over the internet, I came across a computing keyword that is Green Computing. After so much of research on this term I myself tried to have the clear vision about it. This paper will help the researchers and administrators to have a clear understanding of Green Computing. In this modern era of globalization, computers play a vital role in every field, so the needs of computers increased day by day and, to full fill this need, a large amount of electricity required for manufacturing of computers functional units, such as CPU, memory, monitors and peripheral devices etc. By this a large amount of carbon content consumes in the atmosphere. These carbon contents directly or indirectly impact us and responsible for hazards on the earth. However, the growing demand of Cloud infrastructure has drastically increased the energy consumption of data centres, which has become a critical issue. High energy consumption not only translates to high operational cost, which reduces the profit margin of Cloud providers, but also leads to high carbon emissions which is not environmentally friendly. There are many technique used by intelligent people to overcome this problem, one of that technique is Green computing. Green Computing takes responsibility of eco-friendly use of computer and their resources. In order to design such solutions, deep analysis of Cloud is required with respect to their power efficiency. Mainly, IT industries are responsible for 3% of the world's energy consumption with an increase of 20% per year. The main goal of Green computing is to increase the efficiency of the IT products during its lifecycle and endorse the recycling of useless goods and factory waste. This paper introduces some energy efficient techniques of green computing and their use in future.

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2023

Green Cloud is an idea that contributes towards faster digital computational unit with low access cost by an eco-friendly means. Green revolution promotes the use of available resources in environment friendly way and Cloud technology offers storage, database, networking, software, analytics and many more services to its customers on Pay-As-You-Go basis. In today’s scenario, technology is moving largely towards cloud. There is a drift of big as well as small businesses on cloud. With this alteration, there arises a need to go green, as there is lot of carbon footprints and emissions with the use of electronic devices like laptops, standalone PCs, servers etc. The focus of green technology is to minimize the computational costs along with saving the substantial energy consumption and effective utilization of such devices. Green Cloud Computing is an approach towards promoting the green concept in cloud technology. This paper highlights the need to switch to green technology and provides various ways by which it can be attained. The emphasis is on the use of Green Cloud with a mention of its architecture and usefulness, which probably would optimize the performance of cloud without harming the environment. The study is based on the work done by various scientists working in data centers concluding that there is a need of getting green with cloud technology.

International journal of innovative research in computer and communication engineering, 2024

Cloud computing is the internet-based provision of computer services. The usage of some cloud services by individuals and businesses is expanding quickly. The rising demand for cloud infrastructure has led to a notable rise in the energy consumption of data centers. Reducing energy usage is essential to lowering carbon dioxide emissions, hence it must be addressed. Given that green cloud computing's main objective is to maximize energy efficiency, it is acknowledged as a potential solution to this issue. This paper presents green cloud computing alternatives for energy savings in addition to defining cloud computing with the key cloud service models, deployment strategies, and computing platforms. After that, these solutions were categorized based on how well they reduced energy.

Proceedings of the …, 2011

For processing large amounts of data, management and switching of communications may contribute significantly to energy consumption and cloud computing seems to be an alternative to office-based computing.

This paper analytically scrutinizes the energy dissipation based on services and invades the conditions to promote green cloud computing to save energy crisis. In conventional, cloud computing emphasis on the data computing efficiency whereas green cloud computing accredit to the research and practice of applying computing resources in virtuous, adequate and commercial way. At present, the cloud computing systems waste an enormous volume of energy and large amount of carbon dioxide are substantially emitted. The extensive ejections of carbons are primarily due to heat generated by the data centre servers.Information systems that are organized are needed to be amended directly. Through admittance to remote servers accumulated in "green data centres" disbursed by the service providers, employees in the company are endowed with lighter pcs. The pivot able aspect of green cloud computing is to asset the approach of decussating the desolation of power resources. The intent of green computing is analogous to green chemistry; aggrandize the energy adequacy in the midst of product's lifetime, pauperize the adoption of precarious component.

The recent growth of Cloud Computing technology has received a major attention on the research arena worldwide, mainly being focused on performance issues of greater and larger Data Centers. It is our interest to know about their cost regarding energy and power consumption. Are we getting to the point where it’s too late to sustain a green environment, because of the high level of risk we are taking without analyzing? This study tends to give answers to these questions by presenting the current state of the art on green cloud computing. This paper provides an overview of researches and reports published in the latest three years, 2010-2013, in the fields of Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency improvements and awareness. We highlight the trend of researches on this area from the “Cloud Service Providers” and Environmentalists point of view.