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Abstract. Customers of online services may want to take carbon emissions into account when deciding which service to use, but are currently hindered by a lack of reliable emissions data that is comparable across services. Calculating accurate carbon emissions across a cloud computing pipeline involves a number of stakeholders, none of whom are incentivised to accurately report their emissions for competitive reasons.
In this paper we explore mechanisms to support verifiable and privacy-preserving emissions reporting across a chain of energy suppliers, cloud data centres, virtual machine hosting services providers and cloud services providers, which are ultimately passed through to APIs used by customers. We believe that adding verifiable and composable emissions transparency to cloud computing architectures enables providers to compete on the basis of sustainability, resulting in demand-side pressure on cloud services to shift to renewable energy sources.
Authors. Jessica Man, Sadiq Jaffer, Patrick Ferris, Martin Kleppmann and Anil Madhavapeddy
See Also. This publication was part of the Planetary Computing project.
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