Systems and methods for reducing carbon emissions from machine learning computational tasks

Abstract

A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a scheduling computing device configured to receive computational task data defining a computational task to be performed, retrieve site data corresponding to each of a plurality of data processing computing devices, select, based on the computational task data and the site data, i) a first computational algorithm for executing the computational task, ii) a first data processing computing device of the plurality of data processing computing devices, and iii) at least one time period for executing the first computational algorithm by the first data processing computing device, wherein the first computational algorithm, the first data processing computing device, and the at least one time period are selected to facilitate reducing carbon dioxide emissions associated with executing the computational algorithm, and instruct the first data processing computing device to execute the first computational algorithm during the at least one time period.