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.

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

📅 Date: 1–5 December 2025
📍 Location: University of Nantes, France
🔗 Co-located with: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025)

We welcome prospective and work-in-progress contributions that engage with the workshop’s core themes.

👉 Call for Papers – Maximum 6 pages, ACM double-column format (all inclusive)

Important Dates

18 October 2025 – Submission deadline
13 November 2025 – Author notification
Mid-November 2025 – Camera-ready deadline
1-5 December 2025 - Workshop