Go with the Flow: Analyzing the Carbon Footprint of Green Streaming
Abstract
Video streaming has significantly surged over the past two decades and now accounts for 50% of Internet traffic, raising concerns regarding its environmental impact. Prior work on carbon-aware video streaming, often denoted as “green streaming”, has generally focused on streaming from low-carbon data center regions. However, these approaches often consider only the source data center or rely on coarse-grained attribution models that fail to capture network emissions incurred during streaming.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Green IT and Sustainability
Image and Video Quality Assessment
Caching and Content Delivery
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Pages
- 349–362
- Publication date
- 16 June 2026