Green, Energy-Efficient Computing and Sustainability Issues in Cloud

Abstract

Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive accord, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations. There is a debate that cloud computing is green contributing to sustainability or a risk of climate change. Cloud computing if compared to traditional on-premise computing, is a cost effective, energy-efficient, scalable and on-demand computing. There is no doubt that the expansive power of computing can help us address sustainability challenges, but this technology also draws from the Earth's finite environmental stocks and biosphere which results in risk of climate change.