US Patent 8392574 Providing services based on an environmental metric

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide services based on an environmental metric are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein to provide a service based on an environmental metric comprises assigning, with a processor, a workload distribution to distribute a processing workload for the service among first and second processing containers to meet an environmental target, the first and second processing containers to provide the service at respective individual environmental metrics, and combining, with the processor and based on the workload distribution, individual costs incurred by the first and second processing containers to provide the service at the respective individual environmental metrics to determine an overall cost to provide the service using the determined workload distribution.