A Stackelberg game to derive the limits of energy savings for the allocation of data center resources

► Energy-related costs in large-scale infrastructures are an increasing cost. ► We present a new power model for computing resources based on industry-standard benchmarks. ► We study the trade-off between powering down nodes and quality of service delivered to users. ► We model the interaction between the resource provider and users as a Stackelberg game, a game-theoretic tool.