HotCarbon 2026 — 5th Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon)

HotCarbon is an annual workshop on sustainable computer systems and the carbon footprint of computing, started by UC San Diego and the University of Washington. It invites original contributions on sustainable computing, carbon-aware computing, energy efficiency, data centre sustainability, lifecycle carbon accounting, green AI, hardware sustainability. Submissions may take the form of full research papers, extended abstracts and poster presentations reporting theoretical, computational and experimental work, as well as industrial case studies and applications. The meeting brings together researchers, engineers, industry practitioners and students to exchange recent results and discuss emerging directions in the field. Accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings (ACM).