Computing’s exponential growth demands equally ambitious solutions. This Expedition in Computing convenes computer scientists, electrical engineers, environmental scientists, and economists from seven universities to build an ecosystem for sustainable computing — advancing capital efficiency in hardware manufacturing, operational efficiency in datacenter systems, and the economic frameworks to drive adoption at scale.

Research Highlights

Core Solutions

1, Measurement & Accounting

Developing rigorous methods to quantify efficiency across the computing stack.

2, Capital Efficiency

Reducing manufacturing impact through heterogeneous integration, reuse, and recycling.

3,Operational Efficiency

Demand response, power management, and carbon-aware scheduling for datacenters.

Cross-Cutting Impacts

4, Driving Applications

Benchmarking AI and domain-specific workloads to define efficiency targets.

5, Energy Economics & Policy

Analyzing markets, incentives, and policy levers for sustainable infrastructure.

6, Education & Broader Impact

Curriculum development, workshops, and broadening participation.