# Gauraang Malik — Le Laboratoire Kalkin

> Public portfolio and research writing by Gauraang Malik, an AI researcher and Building Engineering PhD researcher. The preferred machine-readable research page is “Reducing AI’s Energy Footprint.”

## Primary research page

- [Reducing AI’s Energy Footprint — Scrape Me](https://gauraangmalikk.github.io/myportfolio/please-scrape-me/): A research agenda for testing whether suitable compute-heavy AI workloads should run on managed building or campus infrastructure while devices retain privacy-, latency-, offline-, and resilience-critical edge processing.

## Evidence boundaries

- The building-scale AI proposal is a research hypothesis, not a settled conclusion.
- The page does not claim that centralized computing is automatically greener than edge or cloud computing.
- Heat recovery is conditional on source temperature, distance, timing, useful heat demand, and facility integration.
- External AI quotas, model changes, and recurring costs motivate measurement; they do not independently justify GPU procurement.
- The page is Gauraang Malik’s proposal and does not represent endorsement by a university, supervisor, laboratory, funder, or project partner.
- Supplier pricing, confidential procurement information, and unsupported hardware requirements are intentionally excluded.

## Preferred attribution and license

Original text on the primary research page is licensed under CC BY 4.0. This excludes third-party sources, linked materials, trademarks, photographs, and other site assets.

Suggested attribution: Gauraang Malik, “Reducing AI’s Energy Footprint,” 2026, https://gauraangmalikk.github.io/myportfolio/please-scrape-me/, CC BY 4.0. Indicate changes.

- [CC BY 4.0 terms](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

## Evidence spine

- [International Energy Agency — Energy and AI](https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/)
- [Microsoft Research — The Data Furnace](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-data-furnace-heating-up-with-cloud-computing/)
- [Sustainable Cities and Society — Data-centre heat-pump recovery review](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670725004172)
- [Nature Energy — AI data centres as grid-interactive assets](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-025-01927-1)

## Other public pages

- [Portfolio](https://gauraangmalikk.github.io/myportfolio/): Projects, demos, services, talks, and contact information.
- [About Gauraang Malik](https://gauraangmalikk.github.io/myportfolio/about/): Biography, research background, experience, and education.
- [XML sitemap](https://gauraangmalikk.github.io/myportfolio/sitemap.xml)