July 2025 Newsletter
Hi all,
Hopefully summer has been going well for everyone - either you’re enjoying your holidays or catching up with the slow down (ideally those are mutually exclusive!).
Coming from our first newsletter last month, we’re back for another one this July with the latest from the forum. Any feedback on this monthly digest, don’t hesitate to reach out at contact@escs-community.org. We’d love to hear from you!
July Recap of the ESCS Community Forum
News & Resources 📰
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The Green Software Foundation’s Policy Radar tool shared by Kirsty Pringle on the forum brings together relevant upcoming policies relating to green software, and aims to actively engage with both policymakers and the public. It also features a timeline to get a better understanding of the timing of these policies in the coming months.
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Big developments for massive data centres around the UK 👀 Highlighting two new centres in the planning stages - one in Elsham, Lincolnshire that would cost £10bn and estimated to emit 5x the CO2 emitted by Birmingham airport, and another one in Teesside, North East England which will cover 500,000 square metres and could be the largest in Europe.
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Workshop report on the place of Software Engineering in Green AI. A workshop held in Lausanne, Switzerland last February 3-7 on “Greening AI with Software Engineering” culminates in this report summarising discussions on key challenges relating to energy assessment and standardisation, benchmarking, sustainability-aware architectures, runtime, empirical methods, and other topics. The report highlights open research and practical recommendations for software engineering in green AI.
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Annual report of ARCEP about the state of the internet in France. The French regulatory authority for telecommunications, postal services, and print media distribution reports national data gathered on the steady increase of carbon emissions and energy and water usage from data centres, despite the country’s low carbon efforts.
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Online magazine from Green Web Foundation on sustainability and online/digital practices. With the first issue released back in 2020, Branch just released its 9th issue this summer with articles on topics like attuning the web with the natural world, grid-aware web design, and regenerativity. The website itself features grid-aware design that enables readers to opt-in and switch between modes. One of the articles in the latest issue shares learnings and best practices for building sustainable code, through a VSCarbon extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as an example.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities 📣
- Open call (especially for early career researchers) by the UKRI Net-Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Vision and Expertise (NetDRIVE) project, which will fund community activities through three calls: this coming second call will fund projects up to a total value of £1m, of which £200k will be reserved for projects led by early career investigators. Stay tuned and check NetDRIVE calls on July 31 for full guidance and more details.
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Q&A Discussions 💬
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We have an open question from Laura Wilkinson on the forum about open access resources for green computing training. If you have any recommendations, feel free to chime in!
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Interested to see how other groups are introducing newcomers to their sustainability initiatives and affiliations? Dorottya Nagy from the Modernising Medical Microbiology Unit of the University of Oxford shared a snippet of how they do it.
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Looking for resources on assessing the environmental sustainability of data centres? Check the discussion between Caterina Doglioni and Brian Setz, highlighting ISO 50001 and a few papers published on the topic.
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Have questions, news, or tools to share? Post away! 🗒️
We love to see new discussions on the ESCS Community Forum. If you’re new to green computing and want to learn, have been working in this space for a while, or have burning questions on Green DiSC, this is your space to connect with others and find what you need. Our Community Manager, Anica, rounds up highlights every month and yours may get featured in the next one!
🌱 What is this newsletter? This aims to be a round up of interesting news and developments in the sustainable computing space. Whenever we come across an interesting news item or publication on the topic, we will post it on the forum so that everyone can jump in and discuss it. Of course anyone’s welcome to post as well! At the end of each month, we will send out this monthly digest of the articles shared and of the discussions that happened on the forum.
🌱 Who is behind the forum and this monthly digest? This project is led by Loïc Lannelongue at the University of Cambridge and supported by the Wellcome Trust (among others). Anica Araneta is in charge of day-to-day community management. Any questions about that? Just get in touch!