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Describes a session exploring AI in data centers and their environmental trade-offs. It contrasts potential benefits for design and efficiency with harms like energy use, heat emissions, and community impacts, and invites audience input.
The Weight of the Cloud: What AI-Datacenters ask from Project Manager
Hi, I'm Hugo Minney and I'm speaking at SUSE 2026.
I'm talking about AI in data centers, a topic very prominent in the news.
Are they a good thing because they help us design systems that work better with the environment, design battery technologies, design new electric cars, make processes more efficient, or are they a bad thing because they pump lots of heat into the atmosphere, they use lots of electricity and fuel, they damage communities, they create noise pollution and pump lots of moisture into the air.
I'd be delighted to have your opinions and to talk to you about what your opinions are. Thank you.