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Reducing the environmental impact of human activities and adapting to climate change are major issues. Digital technology offers opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint, but it is also a sector that generates numerous environmental impacts (manufacturing of digital components, energy consumption by networks and data centers, end-of-life waste, etc.) and is a source of both direct and indirect impacts.

The cloud offers users significant computing and storage capabilities. The maturity of virtualization technologies has enabled the emergence of complex virtualized infrastructures capable of rapidly deploying and reconfiguring virtual and elastic resources within increasingly distributed infrastructures. This resource management, which is transparent to users, creates the illusion of access to unlimited resources with no energy implications...

However, the energy consumption of these clouds is very real and cause f...