Patent ID: 11875191
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
determining, by a resource placement manager based at least in part on seasonal weather considerations, information descriptive of predicted energy usage by one or more data centers predicted for a future time, wherein the one or more data centers comprise a plurality of computing resources in a plurality of corresponding locations; and
selecting, by the resource placement manager from the plurality of computing resources in the plurality of corresponding locations, a particular computing resource in a particular location at the one or more data centers for performing one or more computing tasks, wherein the particular computing resource in the particular location is selected based at least in part on reducing energy usage, associated with the one or more data centers, according to (1) the information descriptive of predicted energy usage predicted for the future time at the one or more data centers and (2) a predicted energy usage to perform the one or more computing tasks using the selected particular computing resource at the one or more data centers, and wherein the particular computing resource in the particular location is used to perform the one or more computing tasks.