Green Cloud Computing: Integrating Sustainable Practices with Energy-Aware Solutions.

This research addressed the critical challenge of balancing computational performance with environmental sustainability in cloud environments. By integrating energy-aware solutions with dynamic resource management, we investigated a pathway toward Green Cloud Computing that significantly reduces the carbon footprint of digital infrastructure. The core of this study was the implementation and evaluation of the Sustainable Energy-Aware (SEA) model. Our findings confirm that: • Energy Efficiency: Through the use of dynamic VM consolidation and an energy-aware shutdown policy, energy consumption was reduced by 46.7% compared to standard non-power-aware architectures. •Performance Stability: The methodology successfully mitigated the risks associated with server consolidation, maintaining an SLA violation rate of less than 0.01%. • Scalability: The results derived from the PlanetLab traces suggest that these algorithms are robust enough to handle the heterogeneous workloads typical of modern, large-scale data centres.

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