Xu, Zichuan (Edward)Liang, Weifa2015-12-08June 27-Ju9781479904907http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29108Data centers, serving as infrastructures for cloud services, are growing in both number and scale. However, they usually consume enormous amounts of electric power, which lead to high operational costs of cloud service providers. Reducing the operationalMinimizing the operational cost of data centers via geographical electricity price diversity201310.1109/CLOUD.2013.942015-12-08