(Français) Projet CARECloud

Understanding, improving and reducing the environmental impact of cloud computing

Cloud computing offers users considerable computing and storage capacity. The maturity of virtualization techniques has enabled the emergence of complex virtualized infrastructures, capable of rapidly deploying and reconfiguring virtual and elastic resources, in increasingly distributed infrastructures. This transparent resource management gives users the illusion of access to flexible, unlimited and virtually immaterial resources. However, the power consumption of these clouds is very real and a cause for concern, as are their overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the consumption of critical raw materials used in their manufacture.

At a time when climate change is a growing concern, with serious consequences for people and the planet worldwide, all sectors (transport, construction, agriculture, industry, etc.) must contribute to the effort to reduce GHG emissions. Clouds, despite their ability to optimize processes in other sectors, are no exception to this observation: the increasing slope of their GHG emissions must be reversed, or their potential benefits in other sectors will be wiped out. This is why the CARECloud project aims to drastically reduce the environmental impact of cloud infrastructures.

CARECloud is organized into 4 work packages. Work package 0 is dedicated to project management and scientific mediation.

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