Topics of interest in sustainable data centers include but are not limited to:

1. Instrumentation, measurement, and characterization studies
2. Metrics, benchmarks, interfaces
3. Performance, energy and other resource trade-offs, energy complexity
4. Energy-efficient software optimization, application design
5. System-level optimization, cross-layer coordination
6. Scheduling, run-time adaptation, feedback control
7. Processor, memory, network, storage, hardware components and architecture
8. Reliability and power management
9. Thermal management
10. Green energy sources and their implications
11. Technologies for and management of energy storage
12. Life-cycle analysis