AI and Sustainability Workshop

A half-day workshop at the École normale supérieure - PSL on the environmental cost of AI infrastructure as data centres expand across France and Europe, run with the AI and Society Institute and the Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI. The morning is open to the public. Cecilia Rikap, author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud, keynotes at 10:00. Tristan Coignon covers AI video generation's usage and impact, Antonia Marcheva the costs and benefits of generative AI in the global economy, Loup Cellard the barriers to reusing data-centre waste heat, and Clément Gasull grid connection regimes for French data centres. A panel at 11:40 looks at forecasting token consumption. 9:30 to 13:00, Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005. Free. Why go: numbers and grid mechanics rather than positions. Best for infrastructure engineers and researchers.