Sustainable Data Centres

Track Description

Data centers are at the core of modern digital infrastructure, powering an array of critical applications from cloud computing and high-performance simulations to artificial intelligence and emerging quantum computing technologies. Despite their critical importance, the rapid expansion and increasingly intensive computational demands of these facilities contribute significantly to global environmental challenges, particularly through substantial energy consumption, resource depletion, and electronic waste generation. To address these pressing concerns, environmental computing seeks innovative approaches to minimize the ecological footprint of data centers by integrating state-of-the-art computational methods and sustainable operational strategies.
This special track invites comprehensive discussions on reducing environmental impacts through enhanced efficiency in data centers, focusing also on cutting-edge computing paradigms. By exploring the intersection of environmental informatics, computational efficiency, and future-oriented technologies, the track aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and promote sustainable computational practices that are economically feasible and ecologically responsible.