Jason Crop and Hayden Moore won the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference for research on per-CPU thermal optimization in data centers.
Their paper challenges the idea that cooler is always better, arguing that ITD-aware thermal management can cut the environmental impact of computing as AI and cloud workloads raise power, cooling and water use.
Crop said his full-time work as a Broadcom power thermal design engineer helped connect the research to real-world problems, while Moore traced his focus on green computing to his undergraduate studies at CSU.
The award highlights a broader push in sustainable computing, where the researchers said many small engineering gains across chips, systems and cooling can collectively shape next-generation energy-efficient infrastructure.