BoaviztAPI
A Bottom-Up Model to Assess the Environmental Impacts of Cloud Services
Thibault Simon
David Ekchajzer
Adrien Berthelot
Eric Fourboul
Samuel Rincé
Romain Rouvoy
ICT's carbon footprint
The global objectives
The ICT trajectories
ICT's mineral footprint
« Mineral extraction has contributed to environmental degradation, population displacement, violent conflicts and human rights violations » 1
Embodied emissions
« Reducing energy consumption alone fails to reduce carbon emissions » 1
Different accounting permiters
hindering meaningful comparisons
Our approach
Embodied
Usage
Embodied
Usage
Embodied
Usage
Total
Results
Cloud instance
GWP impact of a cloud instance hosted in France with 4 vCPUs, 8 GB of vRAM and 80 GB of SSD storage used for a year
Conclusion
A bottom-up approach to find actionable lever
Considering the life cycle of resources over three categories
An open-source methodology based on open-source data
Future work: GPUs, infrastructure overhead, better handling of uncertainties
