Key info as displayed on https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/: 2nd International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (loco2026) 10-11 September, Lancaster, UK The carbon footprint of ICT is rising despite the urgent need to decarbonise society and to stay within planetary boundaries. The operational and embodied carbon emissions from ICT are already estimated to contribute between 2 to 3 percent of the global emissions and new technologies such as AI is driving overall growth in data centre demand, which globally rivals that of entire nations. This growth in emissions from computing is unsustainable and alternative low emissions pathways for computing are urgently needed. The LOCO workshop provides a forum for radical ideas, early work, and critical perspectives that aim to reduce the emissions from computing. See the website for deadlines!

1/3: Very happy that LOCO, the International #Workshop on #Low #Carbon #Computing we started two years ago, is going to take place again! Adrian Friday and team will host #LOCO2026 in Lancaster and online on September 10 and 11 this year! 💻 🌱

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Screenshots of the keynote and paper presentation details from https://tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/ 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems April 27, 2026, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom – in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2026 Keynote Talks Co-Simulating Computing and Energy Systems. Philipp Wiesner, Postdoctoral Researcher at Technische Universität Berlin and Research Scientist at Exalsius, Germany. Cloud Instances and Power Consumption: Measuring Energy in Hyperscale Cloud Environments. Pierre Jacquet, Postdoctoral Researcher at ÉCole de Technologie Supérieure and Research Scientist at OVHcloud, Canada. Accepted Papers ConfigSpec: Profiling-Based Configuration Selection for Distributed Edge–Cloud Speculative LLM Serving (full paper). Xiangchen Li (Virginia Tech), Saeid Ghafouri (Queen’s University Belfast), Jiakun Fan (Virginia Tech), Babar Ali (Queen’s University Belfast), Hans Vandierendonck (Queen’s University Belfast), and Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech). EcoKube: Simulating Carbon-Aware Scheduling Policies in Heterogeneous Edge–Cloud Environments (full paper). Gonçalo Ferreira and Shashikant Ilager (University of Amsterdam). EdgeTraffic: An EdgeAI Dataset Integrating Road Traffic Dynamics with System Telemetry (full paper). Moysis Symeonides (University of Cyprus), Demetris Trihinas (University of Nicosia), and Nicolae Cleju (“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi). Energy-Aware Optimal Service Function Chain Embedding in Emulated Multi-Access Edge Computing for Internet of Things (full paper). Theviyanthan Krishnamohan and Paul Harvey (University of Glasgow). Minimalist Integration Testing Framework for Early-Stage Developments of Heterogeneous Distributed Embedded Systems (short paper). Luca Kleinschmidt, Lukas Pirl, and Andreas Polze (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam).

Happy to share the details of the keynote talks and accepted papers that will make up the program of the 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems #TDIS2026, which will take place on 27 April with ACM #EuroSys 2026 in Edinburgh!

More info: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/

We had a fantastic away day as the Carbon-Conscious Computing lab (lauritzthamsen.org/lab/) of the University of Glasgow last week! 💻 ☁️ 🌱 In keeping with our mission, we took our bikes out for a ride around the Isle of Bute! 🚉 ⛴️ 🌊

Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows Scientific workflows are widely used to automate scientific data analysis and often involve processing large quantities of data on compute clusters. As such, their execution tends to be long-running a...

4: Kathleen will be presenting a short paper on Carbon-Aware Workflow Execution, arxiv.org/abs/2503.13705. This will be Kathleen's first talk at a conference and we are actively working on extending our results in the EPSRC-funded project Casper, so you are most welcome to provide helpful feedback!

LOCO-2024. Keynote talk by Ayse Coskun. Boston University, USA YouTube video by International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

Let me also highlight the academic #keynote on "AI's Energy Challenge: Can Data Center-Power Grid Coordination Offer a Path to Sustainability?" by Boston University's Ayse Coskun: youtu.be/ClBSFDaqDrM

LOCO-2024. Keynote discussion with Anne Currie. Strategically Green, UK YouTube video by International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

... and the #keynote #discussion we had with Strategically Green's fantastic @annecurrie.bsky.social: youtu.be/_nLrbIAng8o

LOCO2024 - SICSA SICSA - Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱

Bids due: 13 May (AoE)

Notifications by: 4 June

Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...

#lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research

PROPL, the workshop that inspired us to organize LOCO, is back! This time it'll take place with both ICFP and SPLASH. Have a look at the website if programming/computing as a force for good is something you care about! 💻🌍🌱📄👇

A collage out of five photos from the day: - In the center is a photo of a LOCO 2024 poster. - In the top left is Kathleen West presenting her paper. - In the bottom left is Andres La Riva moderating the keynote chat. - In the bottom right is a photo of a live demo on carbon-aware networking that Ryan Gibb gave. - In the top right is me during the opening remarks.

It’s been two weeks since we held the 1st International Workshop on Low-Carbon Computing (LOCO), and I'm still buzzing. It was so good to see this community come together, hear about all the interesting ideas and early results, and witness how many care deeply about computer system sustainability! 🧵

LOCO2024 - SICSA SICSA - Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Just a few days now till #LOCO2024 – the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing! 💻 🔬 🌱 The final programme for the whole of Tuesday 3 December is now available on our workshop website, www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...

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Only three more days to apply to join us as a (PD)RA on the EPSRC-funded #Casper project. Together with our partners at HU Berlin, AWS, and the BBC, we will be researching how the execution of scalable batch processing applications can be aligned with the availability of low-carbon energy! ☁️💻🌱