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
The workshop emphasizes interactive discussion between communities, aiming to generate open questions and dialogue among participants.
📅 Date: 4-5 December 2025 (4 December: dinner, 5 December: workshop)
📍 Location: Nantes, France (L’École de design)
🔗 Related events: the date and location will be 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
- 18 October 2025 – Submission deadline (AoE - Anywhere on Earth)
- 7 November 2025 – Acceptance notification
- 4 December 2025 – Pre-workshop dinner
- 5 December 2025 – Workshop day