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SUMMARY:AI and Energy: Building a Sustainable Future
DTSTART:20260210T110000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni De Micheli Drazen Dujic Darong Huang Dr. Binod Koiral
 a Xavier OUVRARD\nWe will explore holistic approaches to sustainable compu
 ting\, from renewable energy integration and advanced cooling in data cent
 ers to hardware efficiency with custom accelerators\, energy storage solut
 ions\, heat reuse\, and the broader vision of sustainable AI.\n\nAs AI dem
 and continues to rapidly increase\, its growing energy demand calls for ur
 gent and holistic solutions to be sustainable. During this event\, the tal
 ks will address sustainable computing across multiple layers\, from renewa
 ble energy integration and advance cooling technologies in data centers to
  energy-efficient hardware design and custom accelerators.\nFeatured talks
  include pioneering initiatives such as EPFL’s HeatingBits and EMPA’s 
 HEATWISE project\, which demonstrate how data centers and edge computing f
 acilities can smartly be integrated to be more sustainable by enhancing he
 at reuse and possibly reducing drastically carbon emissions\, through diff
 erent means such as battery storage systems and advanced heat reuse and st
 orage.\n\nWe will also high the role of AI itself in optimizing its own fo
 otprint. Beyond technological breakthroughs\, we aim to promote sustainabi
 lity as a fundamental design principle for future computing systems. Toget
 her\, these contributions define a roadmap toward AI that is not only powe
 rful and intelligent but also energy-responsible and sustainable by design
 .\nTalks:\n\n	The energy wall: success and survival strategies for AI – 
 Prof. Giovanni De Micheli\, EcoCloud\, EPFL\n	The HEATWISE project: Waste 
 heat utilization from edge data centers in tertiary buildings – Dr. Bino
 d Koirala\, Urban Energy Systems Lab\, EMPA\n	Improving data centers’ en
 ergy efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint: the EPFL HeatingBit
 s project – Prof. Drazen Dujic\, Power Electronics Laboratory\, EPFL\n	B
 eyond the Bottleneck: AI as the catalyst for sustainable computing – Dr.
  Darong Huang\, Embedded System Laboratory\, EPFL\n
LOCATION:SwissTech https://www.stcc.ch/
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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