NOTE A ROOM CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT, TO ASC ROOM 500! 

The Environmental Innovations Initiative's Climate 101 series demystifies climate change and its link with a diversity of disciplines. Experts from across Penn share how they think about climate through the lens of their research and teaching, helping to raise our climate literacy and prepare us to tackle one of the planet's greatest challenges: the climate crisis.

Join us for February's Climate 101 event with Benjamin Lee, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he will talk about Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence.

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate, computer architects must assess and mitigate its environmental impact. Lee's talk will survey strategies for reducing the carbon footprint of AI computation and data center infrastructure, drawing on data and experiences from industrial, hyperscale systems. He will explain how his work:

• Analyzes the embodied and operational carbon implications of super-linear AI growth.
• Rethinks data center infrastructure and defines a solution space for carbon-free computation with renewable energy, utility-scale batteries, and job scheduling.
• Develops strategies for data center demand response, incentivizing both batch and real-time workloads to modulate power usage in ways that reflect their performance costs.

Join EII for a talk reviewing a broad perspective on sustainable computing and outlining the many remaining directions for future work. 

This event will be held in person in the Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500, with a virtual option. Please register below.