Preprint
Sep 2026
GreenDirector: carbon- and water-aware workload placement for sustainable computing
The rapid growth of data center electricity demand, accelerated by AI, makes carbon-only accounting an incomplete measure of computing's environmental impact: low-carbon electricity mixes are often water-intensive, and the resulting harm depends on local, seasonal scarcity rather than on the volume of water consumed. W...
Jaime Iglesias Blanco, Ignacio Heredia, María Castrillo et al.
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