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The Greenest Data Center Was Not the Fastest One

InFactPlanner compares energy, carbon, water, latency and utilization before an LLM-serving deployment is built.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-15-027
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Summary

InFactPlanner compares energy, carbon, water, latency and utilization before an LLM-serving deployment is built.

The trace-driven planning tool combines workload traces, hardware profiles, site capacity, power and water effectiveness, renewable generation and time-varying grid carbon. Its accounting reproduced reference inference-energy estimates within 10 percent, then explored hardware, location, renewable placement and routing scenarios. The case studies show sustainability-optimal choices can diverge from latency-optimal ones and depend on the local grid mix; the framework estimates alternatives rather than measuring a finished facility.

Why it matters

InFactPlanner compares energy, carbon, water, latency and utilization before an LLM-serving deployment is built.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. InFactPlanner compares energy, carbon, water, latency and utilization before an LLM-serving deployment is built.

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Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.12915arXiv · primary research

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