Tactic: Environmental control giveaway

Tactic sort: Dark Tactic

Type: Unsustainable Pattern

Category: cloud-computing

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Title

Environmental control giveaway

Description

By migrating their digital assets to a remote cloud provider, cloud users effectively give away the control over the definition of their energy consumption strategies. Cloud providers have hence the responsibility to demonstrate to their customers, how they enable which strategies; and the extent to which their assets contribute by providing significant SLAs and metrics/indicators that cloud users can use e.g., for decision making. At the same time, cloud providers acquire the power to decide to invest in such strategies, or not. Unfortunately, by feeding myths about the energy optimizations automatically coming with economies of scale, energy control results to be regularly misused.

Participant

cloud-user, cloud-provider

Related artifact

Data center

Context

Energy opimization, strategy making

Feature

Energy consumption / Environmental strategies and metrics

Tactic intent

Giving away the control (owned by the cloud user) over the definition of environmental / energy consumption strategies and metrics

Intent measure

Service Level Agreement

Countermeasure

Introducing laws and regulations of the data center industry, e.g., awarding tax reductions against quantified energy optimizations; or following systematic cloud migration models and frameworks that help users analyze e.g., how detailed the SLAs are wrt. energy consumption.

Source

*The Dark Side of Cloud and Edge Computing* by Klervie Toczé, Maël Madon, Muriel Garcia and Patricia Lago (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/bf6fb269.9422c084)