This thrust develops models and tools that quantify computing’s environmental costs across the full lifecycle — from semiconductor fabrication to runtime energy consumption. Current methods cannot attribute impact to individual workloads on shared infrastructure or connect system activity to grid carbon intensity in real time. The thrust builds fabrication process models, operational telemetry frameworks, and life-cycle validation tools that serve as the quantitative foundation for all other center activities.
Key Research Questions
- How can we model embodied costs of semiconductor fabrication with sufficient fidelity to guide design decisions?
- What telemetry and attribution frameworks can assign operational carbon to individual workloads in shared datacenters?
- How do we validate and harmonize lifecycle accounting to produce auditable sustainability metrics?
| Role | PI | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | Gu-Yeon Wei | Harvard |
| Collaborator | Udit Gupta | Cornell |
| Collaborator | Gage Hills | Harvard |
| Collaborator | Minlan Yu | Harvard |
| Collaborator | Yuan Yao | Yale |

