Carbon-Aware Governance Gates: An Architecture for Sustainable GenAI Development
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| author | Abbasi, Mateen A. Mikkonen, Tommi J. Ihantola, Petri J. Waseem, Muhammad Abrahamsson, Pekka Mäkitalo, Niko K. |
| author_facet | Abbasi, Mateen A. Mikkonen, Tommi J. Ihantola, Petri J. Waseem, Muhammad Abrahamsson, Pekka Mäkitalo, Niko K. |
| contents | The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) in the software development life cycle (SDLC) increases computational demand, which can raise the carbon footprint of development activities. At the same time, organizations are increasingly embedding governance mechanisms into GenAI-assisted development to support trust, transparency, and accountability. However, these governance mechanisms introduce additional computational workloads, including repeated inference, regeneration cycles, and expanded validation pipelines, increasing energy use and the carbon footprint of GenAI-assisted development. This paper proposes Carbon-Aware Governance Gates (CAGG), an architectural extension that embeds carbon budgets, energy provenance, and sustainability-aware validation orchestration into human-AI governance layers. CAGG comprises three components: (i) an Energy and Carbon Provenance Ledger, (ii) a Carbon Budget Manager, and (iii) a Green Validation Orchestrator, operationalized through governance policies and reusable design patterns. |
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| spellingShingle | Carbon-Aware Governance Gates: An Architecture for Sustainable GenAI Development Abbasi, Mateen A. Mikkonen, Tommi J. Ihantola, Petri J. Waseem, Muhammad Abrahamsson, Pekka Mäkitalo, Niko K. Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) in the software development life cycle (SDLC) increases computational demand, which can raise the carbon footprint of development activities. At the same time, organizations are increasingly embedding governance mechanisms into GenAI-assisted development to support trust, transparency, and accountability. However, these governance mechanisms introduce additional computational workloads, including repeated inference, regeneration cycles, and expanded validation pipelines, increasing energy use and the carbon footprint of GenAI-assisted development. This paper proposes Carbon-Aware Governance Gates (CAGG), an architectural extension that embeds carbon budgets, energy provenance, and sustainability-aware validation orchestration into human-AI governance layers. CAGG comprises three components: (i) an Energy and Carbon Provenance Ledger, (ii) a Carbon Budget Manager, and (iii) a Green Validation Orchestrator, operationalized through governance policies and reusable design patterns. |
| title | Carbon-Aware Governance Gates: An Architecture for Sustainable GenAI Development |
| topic | Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19718 |