Authors:
David Margery
1
;
David Guyon
2
;
Anne-Cecile Orgerie
3
;
Christine Morin
1
;
Gareth Francis
4
;
Charaka Palansuriya
4
and
Kostas Kavoussanakis
4
Affiliations:
1
Inria, France
;
2
University Rennes 1, France
;
3
CNRS - IRISA and Rennes, France
;
4
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Cloud Computing, Energy Monitoring, Carbon Emissions, CO2 Accounting.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Economic Models of Energy Efficiency
;
Energy and Economy
;
Energy Monitoring
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Renewable Energy Resources
Abstract:
CO2 emissions related to Cloud computing reach nowadays worrying levels, without any reduction in sight. Often, Cloud users, asking for virtual machines, are not aware of such emissions which concern the entire Cloud infrastructures and are thus difficult to split into the actual resources utilization, such as virtual machines. We propose a CO2 emissions accounting framework giving flexibility to the Cloud providers, predictability to the users and allocating all the carbon costs to the users. This paper shows the architecture of our accounting framework and ideas on how to practically implement it.