Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”"

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3/3: Please help spread the word, if you can! 📢📢📢

#sustainable #green #computing #research #workshop

2/3: Short #papers and #lightning #talk abstracts are due by 29 May. See the CfP for the wide range of topics and perspectives welcomed.

As before, the workshop will be held in a #hybrid manner, and papers will be published as #arXiv #proceedings – in line with the workshop series' charter.

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! 💻 🌱

lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊
More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

16 GW of power deals announced by 5 hyperscalers in 2026

More evidence that Big Tech is locking us into a new generation of fossil fuel infrastructure and destabilizing our climate: the 5 largest hyperscalers have announced 16GW of power deals this year, and only 3GW have been for clean power.

The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 99% since 1991 Representative estimate of the price of battery cells for lithium-ion batteries, across all major cell chemistries. Prices are in US dollars per kilowatt-hour, adjusted for inflation.

At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes
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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/

When I started working on UK energy in 2007, fossil fuels provided ~78% of electricity. Coal alone: 34%. Wind & solar: less than 2%.

Today: wind & solar 33%, fossil fuels 28%, coal 0%.

The chart below tells the story better than words can.

🔈 Deadline extended to 19 February (AoE)!

Submissions for #TDIS2026 are due in 3.5 weeks. If you have new ideas, methods, or tools around how #experimentation with #IoT or #edge systems could be improved, please take a look at our CfP. We are looking for workshop papers (4/6 pages) by 5 Feb to be presented in #Edinburgh on 27 Apr. 📱 🖥️ 🛰️ 🚉 ⚡

2/2: Important dates:
- workshop paper submission: February 5, 2026
- notification of acceptance: March 12, 2026
- workshop day: April 27, 2026

Find the full Call for Papers and our preliminary Program Committee on our website: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/

#IoT #edge #cloud #systems #experimentation

Workshop title, topics of interests, and important dates from https://tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/ 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems Held in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2026 April 27, 2026, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom The 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems (TDIS) will again bring together computer systems researchers and practitioners who focus on testing, evaluating, and measuring distributed IoT systems across the edge-cloud continuum to provide a forum for ongoing work presentations and discussions. ...

1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!

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New vacancy Professor and Head of School School of Computing Science Closing date: 30 November

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Programming for the Planet at ICFP/SPLASH 2025

Part 1 covers the 2nd Programming for the Planet conference (@propl.dev) organised by @kcsrk.info @dorchard.bsky.social and me. There were talks, demos and discussions about what we can do as computer scientists to avert the climate and biodiversity crises anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25... 🌍

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

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Thinking about a PhD in Computing Science?

Join us on 12 Nov at 12:30 PM in the Sir Alwyn Williams Building (Room 422/423, Level 4) for our PhD information session!

Come along and ask questions, get advice, and network with academics and current PhD students.

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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Are you a computer science postgraduate research student at a Scottish university? Would you like £500 to help with your conference travel?

If so then please apply to the @sicsa-scotland.bsky.social travel fund sicsa.ac.uk/sga/phd-trav...

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PROPL '25: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet. Now online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
Looking forward to the workshop next week @icfp-conference.bsky.social/SPLASH

... and I am already looking forward to our next outing! Hopefully, then also with Max MacDonald (who is starting his PhD in October), Matthew Waters (who is another MSci student working with us), and Vasilis Bountris (who is planning to visit us from HU Berlin)!

@uofgcompsci.bsky.social 🏰 🖥️ 🎓

Joining me this time were Kathleen West, James Nurdin, Youssef Moawad, Giulio Attenni, and Magnus Reid.

I am very lucky to get to work with such a bright and friendly group of young researchers at Glasgow! 😊

I believe that research works best as a team sport, with all the obvious benefits, and think that teams work best when there are chances to get to know each other away from the desks from time to time. For example, when there is a tricky flat tire to fix together midway through a bike trip... 🚲 🌬️ 🔧

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! 🚉 ⛴️ 🌊

If you speak two languages well, have you tried counting to 10 in alternating languages? I found it surprisingly mind-bending.

The general co-chairs of ICDCS 2025, Christos (Chris) Anagnostopoulos and Iadh Ounis, opening the main conference on Monday morning

Many thanks to Chris Anagnostopoulos for the kind invitation to attend and to the whole organizing team and many volunteers for the fantastic conference in Glasgow! 🙏

Always so good to meet colleagues in person – some for the first time, some again after a while! 😊

Having a good time with Drs Reza Farahani, Lauri Lovén, Ilir Murturi, and Paul Harvey ahead of the banquet dinner

Dr Blesson Varghese explaining how ML can be made feasible on small edge devices in his workshop keynote

Scottish treats in the coffee breaks – Tunnock's Tea Cakes and shortbread too!

As a vegetarian i was "in safe hands" at ICDCS, as this card says, identifying me as "vegi" :)

I had a great time at IEEE #ICDCS 2025. First time that I attended a conference without a talk or helping to organize, so this was a new experience! Of course, also rather nice to attend a top conference after 10 minutes on public transport (and after dropping off the wee one at nursery too ☺️)