"AI, data, computing: what infrastructure for a low-carbon world?" on 01/10/2025 (The Shift Project)

What are the energy-carbon trajectories driven by the data centre and computing capacity sectors? What are the physically feasible futures that are compatible with energy and carbon constraints? How can we steer technological choices towards AI that is compatible with energy and carbon constraints? These are the questions at the heart of the final report "Artificial intelligence, data, computing: what infrastructures in a low-carbon world?" presented by The Shift Project in Paris at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (and on Zoom) on 01/10/2025.

The event is "an opportunity to present our responses, the fruit of our work launched at the end of 2024 on the energy-climate impacts and trajectories of AI infrastructures", stated The Shift Project's Digital team on 08/09/2025. The final report will be presented by Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Director General of the CNAM.

The document is divided into three parts:
• Focus on the global climate and energy trajectories of data centres and AI;
• Energy trajectories of data centres in France and Europe: to drive or to suffer?
• AI …