ECO-SUS-CARBON-001¶
Name: Carbon-insensitive workload placement
Category: Sustainability & Environmental Impact
Family: Carbon-Aware Computing
Primary layer: architecture
System layers: architecture
Description¶
Workloads are deployed without considering regional carbon intensity or cleaner available regions.
Impact¶
- type: carbon
- confidence: 0.7
- notes: Added as part of the 0.3.0 expansion to capture cross-system sustainability and operational waste.
Detection¶
- method: static-or-runtime
- confidence: 0.55
- runtime_validation_required: Yes
Remediation¶
- guidance: Evaluate region placement against latency, compliance, resilience, carbon intensity, and water stress constraints.
- tradeoffs: May require architecture, product, or operations review rather than a local code change.
Cost Dimensions¶
- compute: high
- memory: low
- network: medium
- storage: low
- human_time: medium
- carbon: high
- water: medium
Amplification¶
- scales_with_users: Yes
- scales_with_data_volume: Yes
- scales_non_linearly: No
Temporal Behavior¶
- startup_only: No
- steady_state: Yes
- burst_sensitive: Yes
- time_degradation: No
Runtime Evidence¶
- cloud region inventory
- carbon intensity data
- billing data
Pattern examples¶
No pattern examples provided.
Remediation examples¶
No remediation examples provided.
Metadata¶
- catalog_version: 0.4.0
- status: draft
- source: catalog expansion recommendations applied 2026-05-21