As computing becomes increasingly pervasive—powering everything from large-scale data analytics to AI-driven applications—its energy consumption and carbon footprint continue to grow at an alarming rate. Addressing this challenge requires rigorous, quantitative frameworks that enable the community to measure, model, and reduce carbon emissions at every layer of the computing stack. By developing robust methodologies and well-defined metrics, researchers and practitioners can pinpoint the most impactful interventions, create scalable solutions, and meaningfully track progress toward reducing global emissions.

The Workshop on Measurements, Modeling, and Metrics for Carbon-Aware Computing (CarbonMetrics) offers a focused platform to explore metrics, modeling techniques, and measurement frameworks dedicated to carbon reduction in computing. We encourage contributions that provide scientifically grounded, evidence-based approaches —including novel carbon-aware metrics, predictive modeling methods, and rigorous measurement strategies— that can be deployed and assessed in practice. Our goal is to foster an active community that unites theoretical advances with real-world impact in reducing the carbon intensity of computing systems and services.

CarbonMetrics will be held alongside ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 at Stony Brook in New York.

CarbonMetrics 2025 Workshop is for you, if you are:

1. Carbon Metrics and Measurement Researchers: Investigating frameworks or tools for accurately measuring the carbon footprint of hardware, software, or entire computing ecosystems.
2. Systems and Resource Management Experts: Focused on scheduling, resource allocation, and performance tuning to optimize carbon efficiency in clouds, HPC clusters, or datacenters.
3. AI and ML Practitioners: Developing machine learning techniques to predict, analyze, and reduce carbon emissions, or creating carbon-aware data pipelines and training methodologies.
4. Hardware and Edge Computing Innovators: Designing energy-efficient hardware and exploring carbon-aware approaches for edge deployments and IoT devices.
5. Lifecycle Assessment Specialists: Applying lifecycle analyses (LCAs) to quantify embodied and operational carbon impacts across the computing stack.
6. Policy Makers and Sustainability Advocates: Seeking standardized metrics, frameworks, or strategies to drive carbon accountability and policy in the computing industry.

Why Yet Another Sustainable Computing Workshop?

The workshop’s distinct focus is on carbon-aware quantification and decision-making methodologies, spanning areas such as emissions metrics, lifecycle assessments, and data-driven measurement approaches. While HotCarbon addresses a broader set of computer systems topics related to carbon reduction, and SoDec explores social and decision-making dimensions of sustainability, CarbonMetrics offers a narrower, metrics-driven perspective. We seek submissions that offer robust methodologies, clearly defined metrics, and frameworks that can be adopted, compared, and extended by the research community—ensuring direct, measurable impact on carbon reduction in computing.

Topics of Interest

The event will cover a wide range of topics related to measurements, modeling, and metrics for carbon-aware computing, including but not limited to:

• Metrics for Carbon Awareness
  • Carbon-focused performance metrics
  • Standardized measurement and reporting frameworks
  • Monitoring and benchmarking tools
• Modeling the Carbon Impact of Computing
  • Predictive models tied to workload characteristics
  • Lifecycle analysis for hardware and software
  • Data-driven methods for embodied and operational carbon quantification
• Measurement Approaches for Carbon Reduction
  • Methods for quantifying real-time carbon intensity across diverse systems
  • Techniques to evaluate trade-offs between performance, energy, and carbon footprints
  • Validation of measurement tools for consistent and reproducible carbon accounting
• Case Studies and Validation
  • Empirical evaluations of carbon-aware frameworks
  • Real-world deployments showcasing carbon metrics and measurement strategies
  • Reports on sector-specific carbon reduction (e.g., AI, edge computing)
• Cross-Disciplinary and Policy Implications
  • Standardization frameworks for carbon quantification
  • Carbon accounting in cloud service-level agreements (SLAs)
  • Policy development and its impacts on technology adoption