The paper introduces an AI-driven framework for thermal‑aware capacity planning in data centers, enabling temperature predictions in milliseconds by learning from key parameters such as rack power, server placement, and HVAC settings. The model is validated against high‑fidelity CFD simulations and achieves a 10,000‑fold speedup while maintaining high accuracy for unseen designs. This rapid prediction capability allows designers and operators to instantly optimize workload distribution and cooling efficiency.
By Yixing Li, Mark Fenton, Matthew Kaufeler, Ka Ming Leung, Xin Ai, Zhiyu Zeng
The paper introduces PWR, a scheduling policy that selects power‑efficient GPU and CPU combinations to reduce power consumption in GPU datacenters. It complements the existing Fragmentation Gradient Descent (FGD) policy, which mitigates GPU fragmentation by using a fragmentation metric. Experiments in a simulated cluster show that combining PWR with FGD balances power savings and fragmentation reduction.
By Francesco Lettich, Emanuele Carlini, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Trani
arXiv:2607. 24773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Managing cloud infrastructure efficiently, especially in environments of large cloud providers or hyperscalers, requires optimizing the use of physical resources to minimize costs and maximize performance.
By Mehryar Majd, Feng Cheng, Ali Pahlevan
arXiv:2608. 12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of LLM inference is shifting sustainability concerns from one-time training to continuous serving, where infrastructure decisions shape energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and service quality.
By Nicoletta Tsiopani, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
arXiv:2605. 02965v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for automating the creation of diverse and customized content, giving rise to rapidly growing computational workloads in cloud data centers.
By Yang Fu, Peng Qin, Liming Chen, Zihao Zhang, Hao Yu, Yifei Wang
The paper reviews 194 papers on using artificial intelligence to optimize data center energy use, coding 63 of them. It finds that most control studies validate only in simulation, none consider water withdrawal or embodied carbon, and savings estimates overlap across methods, preventing ranking. The authors propose CLEAR‑DC, a framework that links control and workload demand through elasticity, reports net benefits, and records energy, carbon, water, embodied share, and validation venue.
By Mohammed Basharath Ullah, Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem Ullah
arXiv:2606. 07632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proper accounting of the energy requirements and environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is necessary for researchers, developers, policy makers, and users to assess the barriers to building systems at scale.
By Jared Fernandez, Clara Na, Yonatan Bisk, Constantine Samaras, Emma Strubell
The rapid growth of AI workloads is turning data centers into large-scale, volatile, yet spatiotemporally flexible grid loads, creating an urgent need for coordinated electricity-computing scheduling. Under stringent grid constraints, schedules from general-purpose large language models (LLMs) are often infeasible, causing line-flow violations and unserved load.
The paper analyzes the environmental footprint of machine learning model training, focusing on large language models and their hardware. It finds that energy use and environmental impacts have risen exponentially over the past decade, even when employing carbon‑efficient electricity and more efficient hardware. The study argues that optimization strategies alone cannot curb these impacts due to a rebound effect, and stresses the need to evaluate hardware life‑cycle impacts and integrate environmental metrics into NLP research practices.
By Cl\'ement Morand (STL), Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE, LISN, STL), Aur\'elie N\'ev\'eol (STL, LISN)
arXiv:2607. 26710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of AI workloads is turning data centers into large-scale, volatile, yet spatiotemporally flexible grid loads, creating an urgent need for coordinated electricity-computing scheduling.
By Kaiwen Jiang, Siya Xu, Ziyue Zhu, Chao Yang, Anh Tuan Luu, Haoran Luo
arXiv:2606. 21401v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI applications compose multiple model calls and tool executions, creating new scheduling challenges for GPU-CPU clusters.
By Yeqi Huang, Yanwei Ye, Guomin Chen, Wenhao Su, Bin Gong, Jialian Li, Zhan Lu, Yangshen Deng, Xuan Sun, Le Xu, Luo Mai
arXiv:2605. 23348v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI power demand is growing at an unprecedented rate while power grids are often ailing and struggle to keep up.
By Tella Rajashekhar Reddy, Atharva Deshmukh, Liangcheng Yu, Chaojie Zhang, Mike Shepperd, Rohan Gandhi, Anjaly Parayil, Srinivasan Iyengar, Ajay Manchepalli, Debopam Bhattacherjee