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Tactic: Concealed impact

Tactic sort: Dark Tactic
Type: Unsustainable Pattern
Category: edge-computing
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Title

Concealed impact

Description

To date, end users lack visibility on their impact, e.g., the energy footprint of their use of digital services. By being unaware of their negative impact, they have no incentives to change their behavior towards a more sustainable consumption. Hindering awareness, however, can be a (malicious) instrument for e.g., edge providers (and service providers in general) to bring additional revenues based on impact invisibility.

Participant

end-user, edge-user, edge-provider, government

Related artifact

Application/service

Context

Normal operation

Feature

Visibility of usage and cost of resource consumption

Tactic intent

Hindering the awareness of the end user’s negative impact

Intent measure

Level of awareness of the end user

Countermeasure

Leverage the power of awareness creation, e.g., by creating indicators-as-a-service and green labels. Tactics for an energy-aware edge computing provide additional countermeasures.

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)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel