arXiv:2608. 12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of LLM inference is shifting sustainability concerns from one-time training to continuous serving, where infrastructure decisions shape energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and service quality.
By Nicoletta Tsiopani, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
arXiv:2606. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training and deployment consume substantial electricity, but carbon outcomes remain weakly integrated into routine model development decisions.
By Yuxin Chen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Hao Gao (Independent Researcher), Chujie Zou (University of Helsinki, Finland)
arXiv:2605. 23348v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI power demand is growing at an unprecedented rate while power grids are often ailing and struggle to keep up.
By Tella Rajashekhar Reddy, Atharva Deshmukh, Liangcheng Yu, Chaojie Zhang, Mike Shepperd, Rohan Gandhi, Anjaly Parayil, Srinivasan Iyengar, Ajay Manchepalli, Debopam Bhattacherjee
arXiv:2606. 30919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-cloud inference collaborations are often designed with a routing estimator that decides whether to offload each frame from weak models at the edge to stronger models in the cloud.
By Wei Geng, Nitinder Mohan, J\"org Ott
arXiv:2604. 07472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Serving large language model (LLM) inference in cloud environments requires jointly optimizing model selection, GPU provisioning, parallelism configuration, and workload routing under latency, accuracy, memory, and budget constraints.
By Jiaming Cheng, Duong Tung Nguyen
arXiv:2509. 04827v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The energy cost of Large Language Model (LLM) inference is rapidly becoming a barrier to sustainable and scalable deployment.
By Jiahuan Yu, Aryan Taneja, Junfeng Lin, Minjia Zhang
arXiv:2608. 14557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) computing is emerging for low-latency, globally distributed AI services, enabled by advances in satellite constellations and reusable launch systems.
By Nisha Sarwar, Lei Jiang, Fan Chen
arXiv:2607. 24773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing cloud infrastructure efficiently, especially in environments of large cloud providers or hyperscalers, requires optimizing the use of physical resources to minimize costs and maximize performance.
By Mehryar Majd, Feng Cheng, Ali Pahlevan
arXiv:2606. 31470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cloud virtual machines are often overprovisioned, creating avoidable cost and operational inefficiency.
By Jack Bell, Giacomo Carfi, Gerlando Gramaglia, Andrea Simioni, Daniele Fontani, Vincenzo Lomonaco
arXiv:2503. 10367v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Edge devices host domain-specific small language models (SLMs) with limited resources, while private clouds offer larger LLMs.
By Peigen Liu, Yijiang Fan, Zixuan Xu, Yuren Mao, Longbin Lai, Ying Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently serving large language model (LLM) inference tasks is crucial both for user-perceived latency such as time-to-first-token (TTFT) and for GPU utilization.
By Gangmuk Lim, Wanyu Zhao, Brighten Godfrey, Jiaxin Shan, Le Xu, Liguang Xie
arXiv:2602. 00343v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training over privacy-sensitive, distributed data, but its environmental impact is difficult to compare across studies due to inconsistent measurement boundaries and heterogeneous reporting.
By Austin Tapp, Holger R. Roth, Ziyue Xu, Abhijeet Parida, Hareem Nisar, Marius George Linguraru