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

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}
}

License

Carbon Explorer is CC-BY-NC licensed.