Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design Decisions on the Environmental Footprint of Digital Infrastructure

Preist, Chris; Schien, Daniel; Blevis, Eli

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858378

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Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design Decisions on the Environmental Footprint of Digital Infrastructure

Published • May 5, 2016

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Chris Preist

Daniel Schien

Eli Blevis

Abstract

Interactive devices and the services they support are reliant on the cloud and the digital infrastructure supporting it. The environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial and for particular services the infrastructure can account for up to 85% of the total impact. In this paper, we ap...

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Cloud computing

Computer science

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