Sustainable Cloud Computing (CC) creates sustainable Data Center (DC) environments and fosters a conscientious integration of ecological issues with CC activities. The mandates for resources and energy reduction alongside sustainable computing practices bolster this perspective. This study examines the contemporary practices, tactics, and critical elements of the transition to sustainable CC, facilitating energy-efficient DC design. Energy-saving standards necessitate cohesive solutions for power-proportional elements, large-scale data storage, servers, and electrical power supplies to achieve comprehensive energy conservation. Vendors and DC administrators face substantial obstacles in advancing green computing via the cloud. The research examines diverse energy-efficient resource management methods and emphasizes the significance of creating creative and effective sustainable management systems. DC are prevalent, although their visibility underscores the imperative of rendering them sustainable inside the ecological framework. This article addresses the multifaceted challenges and heightened complications associated with implementing sustainable practices in cloud computing operations, offering recommendations and potential alternatives. The research delineates, realigns, and advocates for implementing tactics that encompass not just technical aspects but the enhancement of collaborations and the exploration of methodologies to analyze difficulties further, unify solutions, and assess the influence across further research fields.
Hye-Jin Park (Thu,) studied this question.