Author : Rutvik Patel

Cloud computing has given birth to a new era of IT landscape, with scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT computing resources. Yet the rapid expansion of cloud services has increased energy consumption to such an extent that environmental and sustainability aspects, as well as operational costs, are now of serious concern. As a solution to these challenges, being an integral part of cloud data centers, integrating renewable energy sources into clouds like solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal has become a viable solution. In this paper, energy consumption patterns in a cloud environment are carefully analyzed, and strategies to optimize energy efficiency are studied based on green energy adoption. It studies the possibilities of renewable energy integration, technological advances, economic implications, and a possible decrease in carbon emissions. Also, cloud infrastructure sustainability is discussed through various energy management techniques like workload optimization, demand response mechanism and intelligent resource scheduling. The study points out the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy-driven cloud computing and the future prospects of this field benefits and limitations, and the necessity of innovation aimed at providing energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable cloud services.

Keywords: Cloud Data Centers, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Optimization, Energy Storage Systems, Data Center.