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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)Graphical representation
![]( /AwesomeAndDarkTactics/assets/diagrams/models-environmental_control_giveaway.png)