Pub Date : 2025-11-12DOI: 10.1186/s42162-025-00586-6
Hyungwook Shim
This study utilizes the PM100 dataset to quantitatively estimate job-level carbon emissions and analyze efficiency across different resource configurations. A multilayer perceptron (MLP) regression model was applied to predict emissions using execution time along with CPU, memory, and node-level power consumption data. To evaluate efficiency, we proposed the Carbon Efficiency Score (CES), which enables the classification of jobs into efficiency tiers. The analysis revealed that long-running jobs with excessive memory usage tend to exhibit low efficiency, whereas jobs with balanced resource configurations demonstrate relatively higher efficiency. CES-based classification further showed a difference of more than 200-fold between the most and least efficient jobs. Overall, this study provides a foundational framework for developing carbon-aware scheduling strategies in HPC environments and offers practical insights for the design of sustainable supercomputing operational policies.
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Buildings consume about 36% of global energy and contribute nearly 40% of CO? emissions, making them central to the challenges of energy and climate. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative pathways to improve forecast accuracy, optimize consumption, and support low carbon transitions. Oriented by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework, this review systematically screened the literature from 2020 to July 2025, with selective inclusion of previous foundational studies. In total, 268 publications were reviewed and 70 analyzed in depth. The synthesis covers three domains: (i) energy forecasting, with machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) improving demand and renewable generation prediction; (ii) optimization, with AI improving Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control, renewable scheduling, storage management, and smart grid operations; and (iii) energy efficiency, with AI–Internet of Things (IoT) frameworks enabling predictive control, fault detection, and Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) strategies. Reported impacts include energy savings for HVAC of up to 37%, solar scheduling that reduces costs by 35%, and AI - IoT integration that reduces emissions by 21%. Publication trends show rapid growth since 2020, reflecting accelerated technological progress. The remaining challenges include data fragmentation, interoperability, high computational demand, and cybersecurity risks. In general, the findings highlight AI as a key enabler of resilient, efficient and climate-adaptive building energy systems.
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Under the “Dual Carbon” strategy, efficient recovery of waste heat from diesel equipment in open-pit mines is required. Existing cooling systems cannot handle the dynamic load fluctuations in 5G-enabled energy supply systems, leading to delayed response and low energy efficiency. This paper builds a multi-objective optimization model based on an improved Honey Badger Algorithm. The model uses a Lithium Bromide Absorption cooling system and integrates differential evolution and balancing pool adjustment strategies to enhance the global search ability of the Honey Badger Algorithm. It is also embedded into a 5G scheduling platform to achieve real-time response and intelligent optimization of cooling loads. Experimental results show that the model achieves an average response time of only 1.13 s. Comprehensive system performance indicators such as cooling output, unit cooling cost, and heat recovery rate all outperform traditional optimization methods. The average coefficient of performance reaches 1.78, and the unit cooling cost is as low as 0.40 yuan/kWh. These results demonstrate that the proposed multi-objective optimization model offers excellent performance and practicality in waste heat cooling systems in mining areas. It effectively addresses the problems of slow response and low energy efficiency found in traditional methods and provides a feasible technical path and theoretical support for building green and intelligent energy supply systems in open-pit mines.
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This systematic review and meta-analysis critically evaluates artificial intelligence (AI) applications for energy optimization in smart buildings through comprehensive analysis of 126 peer-reviewed studies (2010–2024) from four major databases. We present a novel taxonomic framework categorizing AI implementations into five distinct approaches: predictive systems, adaptive control, pattern recognition, hybrid ensemble methods, and edge AI implementations. Our meta-analysis reveals significant performance variations: reinforcement learning achieves highest energy savings (22.3% ± 8.4%, 95% CI: 20.2–24.4%, I2 = 73%), followed by hybrid methods (28.1% ± 12.3%, 95% CI: 23.4–32.8%, I2 = 81%) and supervised learning (14.7% ± 5.2%, 95% CI: 12.9–16.5%, I2 = 45%). However, substantial heterogeneity exists across building types and climate zones. Critical findings include limited real-world deployment (18% academic literature, 26% including industry reports), predominant focus on office buildings (78%) and temperate climates (67%), and insufficient multi-system integration (76% single-system studies). Economic analysis indicates ROI periods of 2.1–5.8 years (median 3.4 years) with implementation costs varying from $8,000-$47,000 per facility. We identify five persistent research gaps and propose a prioritized research agenda addressing implementation barriers, standardization needs, and occupant-centric optimization. This study provides the first comprehensive benchmarking framework for AI building energy systems and establishes evidence-based guidelines for practical deployment.
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