Green Aware Datacenter Selection

Abstract

Datacenters have been the key system infrastructure for cloud computing. The demand for datacenter computing has increased significantly in recent years resulting in huge energy consumption. Renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar power are rapidly becoming generation technologies of significance in the United States and around the world. The integration of renewable energy resources is usually very challenging because of their intermittency and inter-temporal variations. The high energy footprint of datacenters leads to serious environmental issues. Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of datacenter operating costs. The proposed system is explicitly modeled the intermittent generation of renewable energy (Wind Power Model and Solar Power Model) with respect to varying weather conditions in the geographical location of each datacenter. Renewable energy resources datacenter selection framework is proposed to reduce the environmental impact and the system takes into account the benefit from the location diversity of different types of available renewable energy resources and an efficient datacenter selection algorithm is proposed major concern of broader research community participating both from academia and industry in the recent years. Large Internet companies (e.g. Google and Microsoft) have significantly improved the energy efficiency of their multi-megawatt datacenters. However, the majority of the energy consumed by datacenters is actually due to countless small and medium-sized datacenters, which are much less efficient. These facilities range from a few dozen servers housed in a machine room to several hundreds of servers housed in a large enterprise installation. These cost, infrastructure, and environmental concerns have prompted some datacenter operator to generate their own solar/wind energy of draw power directly from a nearby solar/wind farm. Green energy sources promise to mitigate the issues surrounding non-renewable generation, but their output is very susceptible to environmental changes.