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CSIC · IFCA · Santander, Spain

Building and studying
large-scale computing
systems.

Computer engineer at the Spanish National Research Council and PhD student. I design open-source tools and data-driven methods for cloud, AI and distributed infrastructures.

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Portrait of Jaime Iglesias Blanco
Jaime Iglesias BlancoComputer Engineer & Researcher

##About Me

I'm a computer engineer at the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA, CSIC · University of Cantabria) and a PhD student in Science and Technology, where I study large-scale computing infrastructures and their relationship with climate change.

My work sits between engineering and research. I monitor, model and analyse cloud, AI and distributed systems, and turn that data into open-source tools others can build on. Energy and sustainability are one of my main lines of work.

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me.focus   # what keeps me busy
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  • Cloud & OpenStack
  • Distributed systems
  • AI workloads
  • Scientific computing
  • Monitoring & data analysis
  • Open source
  • Reproducible science
  • Energy & sustainability
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me.stats()   # the numbers behind the work
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  • 2Horizon Europe projects
  • 1Journal article
  • 5Conferences & workshops
  • 1Best student talk award

##Participating Projects

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me.projects(role='researcher')   # where I have contributed
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Horizon Europe · Mar 2024 – Feb 2027

Ongoing

GreenDIGIT

Greener Future Digital Research Infrastructures

Energy monitoring and optimisation for cloud-based distributed infrastructures, from reusable tools to guidelines for digital research infrastructures.

  • 101131207Grant ID
  • €4.94 MEC contribution
  • 15 organisationsPartners
Programme
Horizon Europe · HORIZON-INFRA-2023-TECH-01
Period
Mar 2024 – Feb 2027
Coordinator
Yuri Demchenko · University of Amsterdam (NL)
Lead at CSIC
Álvaro López García

My tasks

  • Energy monitoring and optimisation strategies for cloud-based distributed computing infrastructures.
  • Development of Wattnet, a tool to quantify the carbon and water footprint of electricity generation in Europe.
  • Attribution of energy consumption to virtual machines and containers in virtualised OpenStack environments, with a focus on AI workloads.
Website CORDIS

Horizon Europe · Sep 2022 – Aug 2025

Completed

iMagine

Imaging data and services for aquatic science

Free image datasets, AI-powered image analysis tools and best practices for marine and freshwater research, built on the European Open Science Cloud.

  • 101058625Grant ID
  • €4.5 MEC contribution
  • 23 organisationsPartners
Programme
Horizon Europe · HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01
Period
Sep 2022 – Aug 2025
Coordinator
Gergely Sipos · Stichting EGI (NL)
Platform coordinator
Álvaro López García (CSIC)

My tasks

  • Explored and defined approaches for energy monitoring within the platform, to collect accurate energy consumption data across the distributed infrastructure.
  • These monitoring capabilities are the foundation for developing and evaluating energy optimisation strategies.
Website CORDIS

##Open-Source Software

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me.software(open_source=True)   # code anyone can run, fork and improve
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Open source · 2026

Wattnet

An open-source service that tracks the carbon and water footprint of electricity across Europe, built to help computing workloads run on cleaner energy.

  • Live, historical and forecast data for every European grid zone
  • Carbon footprint computed from the real generation mix
  • Water footprint of generation, weighted by local freshwater availability
  • One Environmental Score that combines carbon and water impact

Apache-2.0CC BY 4.0

By Jaime Iglesias Blanco · María Castrillo Melguizo · Álvaro López García · Marta Obregón Ruiz · Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz

wattnet.eu Dashboard GitHub Paper
APA

Iglesias Blanco, J., Castrillo Melguizo, M., López García, Á., Obregón Ruiz, M., & Sáinz-Pardo Díaz, J. (2026). Wattnet [Computer software]. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). https://wattnet.eu

BibTeX
@misc{iglesias2026wattnet,
  author       = {Iglesias Blanco, Jaime and Castrillo Melguizo, Mar{\'\i}a and L{\'o}pez Garc{\'\i}a, {\'A}lvaro and Obreg{\'o}n Ruiz, Marta and S{\'a}inz-Pardo D{\'\i}az, Judith},
  title        = {Wattnet},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://wattnet.eu}},
  note         = {Open-source software, Apache-2.0 and CC BY 4.0}
}

##Publications & Data

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me.publications.sort_values('year', ascending=False)   # results, written up and shared
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  • 2026 · Article

    Wattnet: Matching Electricity Consumption with Low-Carbon, Low-Water Footprint Energy Supply

    Castrillo Melguizo, M., Iglesias Blanco, J., Sáinz-Pardo Díaz, J., López García, Á.

    Sustainable Computing: Informatics and SystemsVol. 52 · Article 101473 · Elsevier

    Presents Wattnet, an open-source platform that combines live, historical and forecast data for European grid zones to estimate the carbon and water footprint of electricity, so consumption can be matched with cleaner supply.

    DOI Wattnet software
    APA

    Castrillo Melguizo, M., Iglesias Blanco, J., Sáinz-Pardo Díaz, J., & López García, Á. (2026). Wattnet: Matching Electricity Consumption with Low-Carbon, Low-Water Footprint Energy Supply. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 52, 101473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2026.101473

    BibTeX
    @article{castrillo2026wattnet,
  author    = {Castrillo Melguizo, Mar{\'\i}a and Iglesias Blanco, Jaime and S{\'a}inz-Pardo D{\'\i}az, Judith and L{\'o}pez Garc{\'\i}a, {\'A}lvaro},
  title     = {Wattnet: Matching Electricity Consumption with Low-Carbon, Low-Water Footprint Energy Supply},
  journal   = {Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems},
  volume    = {52},
  pages     = {101473},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  issn      = {2210-5379},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.suscom.2026.101473}
}

  • 2025 · Dataset

    IFCA Cloud Energy Consumption Metrics

    Iglesias Blanco, J., López García, Á.

    DIGITAL.CSICCSIC institutional repository

    A four-month snapshot (Dec 2024 – Apr 2025) of the energy consumption of the IFCA Cloud, a scientific cloud infrastructure in Cantabria: 3-minute readings from physical nodes and virtual machines.

    DOI Repository
    APA

    Iglesias Blanco, J., & López García, Á. (2025). IFCA Cloud Energy Consumption Metrics [Data set]. DIGITAL.CSIC. https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/17271

    BibTeX
    @misc{iglesias2025ifca,
  author    = {Iglesias Blanco, Jaime and L{\'o}pez Garc{\'\i}a, {\'A}lvaro},
  title     = {{IFCA} Cloud Energy Consumption Metrics},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {DIGITAL.CSIC},
  doi       = {10.20350/digitalCSIC/17271},
  note      = {Dataset}
}

Find me onORCID Google Scholar ResearchGate

##Conferences & Talks

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me.events(sort_by="date")   # where I have shown up with a laptop
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  • Hackathon · Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2026 · Oxford, UK

    UKRI NetDRIVE: Hacking with Green Schedulers

    Developed new data providers for the Climate Aware Task Scheduler (CATS), including a full integration with the Wattnet forecasting data.

  • Attendee & Talk · Sep 20 – 24, 2026 · Ghent, Belgium

    EGI Conference 2026

    Attended as a member of the GreenDIGIT project.

    Long talk “Fostering Research by Enhancing AI Offer in EOSC Ecosystem”

  • Talk & Poster · May 4 – 8, 2026 · CERN, Geneva

    Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing (SC4RC)

    Long talk and poster “Wattnet: High-Resolution Carbon and Water Intensity Modelling to Enable Impact-Aware Research Computing”

    ★ SPS Best Student Talk Award

  • Attendee · Jun 2 – 6, 2025 · Santander, Spain

    EGI Conference 2025

    Attended as a member of the GreenDIGIT project.

  • Attendee · Sep 30 – Oct 4, 2024 · Lecce, Italy

    EGI Conference 2024

    Attended as a member of the GreenDIGIT project.

##The Path So Far

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for step in me.path:   # how I got here    print(step.date, step.title)
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  1. 2025 – nowEducation

    PhD in Science and Technology

    University of Cantabria

    Large-scale computing infrastructures and climate change.

  2. Nov 2023 – nowWork

    Computer Engineer

    CSIC · Institute of Physics of Cantabria

    Advanced Computing and e-Science research group · advancedcomputing.ifca.es

  3. 2023 – 2025Education

    MSc Computer Engineering

    University of Cantabria

    Master's degree · 90 ECTS.

  4. Apr – May 2022Work

    Embedded Systems Software Developer

    University of Cantabria · Internship

    Two-month internship contract.

  5. 2019 – 2023Education

    BSc Computer Engineering

    University of Cantabria

    Bachelor's degree · Specialisation in Computer Engineering · 240 ECTS.

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me.contact()   # open to collaborations
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Got a cluster, a dataset or a wild idea? Let's run it.

iglesias@ifca.es GitHub LinkedIn ORCID Google Scholar ResearchGate