INFRASTRUCTURE Workshop 2025
INFRASTRUCTURE is a workshop on the often-neglected infrastructures behind cloud computing and AI systems. It focuses on their environmental impacts and on the socio-technical challenges they create.
Final deadline extension: submit your proposals before 26 October AoE (27 October 12:00 UTC)
Theme:
Rethinking Cloud and AI Infrastructure — Environmental, Technical, and Governance Challenges
The 1st INFRASTRUCTURE Workshop brings together researchers from Computer Science, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and related fields to critically examine the material, environmental, and socio-technical foundations of today’s computing systems. It addresses:
- The growing environmental impact of datacenters and AI infrastructure
- The illusion of infinite scalability and its socio-technical consequences
- The centralisation and governance of cloud infrastructure
The workshop emphasizes interactive discussion between communities, aiming to generate open questions and dialogue among participants.
📅 Date: 5 December 2025 (pre-workshop dinner on 4 December)
📍 Location: Building 34, Faculty of Science, Lombarderie campus, Nantes, France
🔗 Related events: the date is compatible with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025), but the INFRASTRUCTURE workshop is an independent event
We welcome short position papers (2 pages excl. references) that engage with the workshop’s core themes.
Important Dates
Paper-related
- 26 October 2025, 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) - final deadline extension – Deadline for paper submission
- 31 October 2025 – Deadline for travel grant applications – Via registration form
- 7 November 2025 – Notification of acceptance
Participation-related
- 19 November 2025 – Deadline for mandatory registration – Via registration form
- 4 December 2025 – Pre-workshop dinner
- 5 December 2025 – Workshop