Relation of Energy Consumption in Green Cloud Computing with Big Data

Cloud computing is already a part of the daily lives of both people and companies and as such, there is a concern about how it impacts the environment. The union of these two realities provides an opportunity for the emergence of Green Cloud Computing with new proposals, approaches, and metrics to make data centers more efficient, mainly in terms of energy, as well as to reduce CO2 emissions and its environmental impact. Knowing the metrics that can be used to measure the energy cost and environmental impact of data centers are fundamental in Green Computing, this article studies the relationship between energy consumption and execution times, architecture, and costs of a cloud environment. Using simulators it was possible to see an improvement in energy efficiency above 44%, as well as to get a cost reduction of at least 17%, and a reduction of of 55% in the environmental impact from the emission of CO
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. It is important to note that there was no impact on processing times, by using the adoption of algorithms for complex problems, in the scheduling of Virtual Machines.