Mitigating Curtailment and Carbon Emissions through Load Migration between Data Centers
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Authors:: Zheng, Jiajia; Chien, Andrew A.; Suh, Sangwon
Title:: Mitigating Curtailment and Carbon Emissions through Load Migration between Data Centers
Publication Title:: "Joule"
Date:: 2020
URL:: https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(20)30347-0
DOI:: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.08.001
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Zheng, J., Chien, A. A., & Suh, S. (2020). Mitigating Curtailment and Carbon Emissions through Load Migration between Data Centers. Joule, 4(10), 2208β2222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.08.001
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Keywords:: [/unread, curtailment, data center, greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, load migration, variable renewable energy]
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Paper notes by David Mytton
This is a good paper that makes valid points about the possibilities of migrating flexible IT workloads, however it makes classic assumptions I see in most papers that discuss this topic. The big assumptions are that the data centers are fungible entities where the operator has complete control, the goal is to optimize for efficiency, and it is trivial to move huge volumes of data cheaply.
We are starting to see this with the big tech companies who own many data centers. Google is an example used in the paper, but itβs telling that it is the only example.Β Google is only doing it for a small number of workloads. That shows how difficult it is.
This paper is good inspiration for future research direction. I think weβve seen enough evidence of the benefits of such capabilities that time and effort should be directed towards building the technologies needed to achieve these migrations. And if the cloud providersΒ could reduce their data transfer fees, that would be nice as well.