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.
Please cite as:
@article{acun2022holistic,
title={A Holistic Approach for Designing Carbon Aware Datacenters},
author={Acun, Bilge and Lee, Benjamin and Maeng, Kiwan and Chakkaravarthy, Manoj and Gupta, Udit and Brooks, David and Wu, Carole-Jean},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.10036},
year={2022}
}Carbon Explorer is CC-BY-NC licensed.