From data centers to fog computing
The evaporating cloud
Daniele Miorandi
CEO
U-Hopper
daniele.miorandi@u-hopper.com

Will IoT+AI
kill the cloud?

IoT&AI are here
to stay
Will change the
nature of the
Internet as we
know it

Explosion of data
Explosion of computing
Explosion of energy consumption

Today: do everything
in the cloud
IoT data to the cloud
AI (incl. training) in the
cloud

Is the cloud a
dead end?

Fog Computing
bring computing to the data

Cloud computing Fog computing

Benefits of fog
Scalability (less data through the Internet)
Latency (AI closer to data sources)
Data security (local scope)
Cost

How to ‘green’ the fog?

We ‘know’ how to green the cloud

Aren’t greening cloud solutions good for fog?

Fog is fundamentally different from cloud
Will require different solutions

A distributed system
Small amounts of energy consumed in a plurality of locations

Technology
The approach and
frameworks we use for
data processing and AI
in the cloud is not
good for fog

Money
smaller devices, smaller energy cost, smaller savings

Value Chain
The one paying for the
energy may not be the
one who runs the
infrastructure or service

1. Fog is emerging, and it will happen
2. Greening the fog is more difficult than
greening the cloud
3. It is a techno-economic issue, not a
purely technical one
4. Purely financial incentives are not
sufficient
5. May require regulatory actions
Take Away Messages

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This work is part of a project that has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 765452. The
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