A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02767v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:13:21 GMT
• Title: A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
• Authors: Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta,
• Abstract summary: We use an economic approach - taxes - for reducing the energy consumption of datacenters.<n>We developed a tax model called GreenCloud tax, which penalizes energy-inefficient datacenters while fostering datacenters that are energy-efficient.
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• Abstract: The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different algorithms, architectures, and approaches for improving the energy efficiency of cloud datacenters, which are summarized under the umbrella term Green Cloud computing. In this paper, we use an economic approach - taxes - for reducing the energy consumption of datacenters. We developed a tax model called GreenCloud tax, which penalizes energy-inefficient datacenters while fostering datacenters that are energy-efficient. Hence, providers running energy-efficient datacenters are able to offer cheaper prices to consumers, which consequently leads to a shift of workloads from energy-inefficient datacenters to energy-efficient datacenters. The GreenCloud tax approach was implemented using the simulation environment CloudSim. We applied real data sets published in the SPEC benchmark for the executed simulation scenarios, which we used for evaluating the GreenCloud tax.

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