Carbon Explorer evaluates solutions make datacenters operate on renewable energy holistically by including embodied and operational footprints. Solutions Carbon Explorer supports include:

• Capacity sizing with a mix of solar and wind power
• Battery storage
• Carbon aware workload scheduling

Details can be found here: A Holistic Approach for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters (Acun et al, 2022).


The repository contains two notebooks:

• EIA_Energy_Data_Analysis.ipynb analyses EIA's hourly renewable energy data.
• Carbon_Explorer.ipynb combines EIA's data with DC power simulations, evaluates the solutions listed above and finally produces embodied and operational footprint analysis.
   

Citation

Carbon Explorer is accepted at ASPLOS'23. Please cite as:

@article{acun2022holistic,
  title={Carbon Explorer: A Holistic Approach for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters},
  author={Acun, Bilge and Lee, Benjamin and Kazhamiaka, Fiodar and Maeng, Kiwan and Chakkaravarthy, Manoj and Gupta, Udit and Brooks, David and Wu, Carole-Jean},
  journal={Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems},
  year={2023}
}

License

Carbon Explorer is CC-BY-NC licensed.