The carbon footprint of ICT is rising despite the urgent need to decarbonise society and to stay within planetary boundaries. The operational and embodied carbon emissions from ICT are globally significant and new technologies such as AI is driving overall growth especially in data centres, which globally rivals that of entire nations. This growth is unsustainable and alternative low footprint pathways for computing are urgently needed.

The LOCO workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for radical ideas, early work, and critical perspectives that aims to reduce the emissions from computing.

We invite researchers and practitioners across research areas and application domains to take part and contribute to our workshop. The main focus is on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from computing, including but not limited to low energy and energy efficiency; recognising the need for long lived low footprint systems, and computing’s wider role in amplifying climate impacts in other societal systems.

We welcome submissions that describe new ideas and visions, just as much as papers describing ongoing work, completed projects, and practical tools. We welcome critical and disciplinary perspectives and insights on established pathways and emerging trends involving low carbon computing; as well as hopeful trajectories that can galvanise our community.