ARTEMIS: Co-Simulation of Power Microgrids and Energy-Aware Cloud Data Centers

The growing demand for power to support new cloud services raises the question of how to power future data center infrastructures. A power microgrid and cloud simulator that can act as a unified digital twin of these new infrastructures is crucial for studying emerging scenarios. In this article, we propose Artemis, a co-simulation environment for power microgrids and cloud data centers. Artemis extends the combination of the CloudSim Plus simulator and the Amethyst virtual machine allocation and migration policy with a generalized power microgrid model. Ultimately, Artemis enables the study of modular power microgrids with custom electrical policies and returns performance metrics and visualizations of the data center’s status under observation.