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Computing Is Eating the World – Will Saving the Planet Destroy It?
DescriptionHigh-performance computing (HPC) is critical to addressing and contributing to environmental sustainability challenges. This dual impact highlights the urgent need for collaboration among computer scientists and the broader research community. HPC harnesses the power of computing to enable significant near-term advances across many industries. To enable this, however, HPC and cloud data centers have an increasingly large carbon footprint and require substantial water resources for electricity generation and cooling. The carbon emissions of today's data and HPC centers exceed those of the airline industry, and emerging AI models are estimated to draw up to 21% of the world's electricity supply by 2030. To debate and discuss how to bring about transformational change, our panel will bring together leaders from the computing research and environmental sustainability communities. The panel will discuss achieving sustainability by identifying research gaps and new ways multidisciplinary collaborations can address them.