AI Impact on the Environment: from Projections to Remedies

Grégory Lebourg, Ing. Civ., MBA

Global Environmental Director, OVHcloud

With more than 25 years in the Engineering, Telco and IT industry, Greg has held various positions in project management, design, operations, sourcing and business ownership roles.

After completing the Ecole des Mines in France he joined the Kvaerner group, spending 5 years in the design and construction of steel making plants in the US, Spain and Brazil.

In 2000 Greg joined Orange group to take the lead of its European Backbone Network deployment then the financial management of its worldwide Terrestrial Backbone Networks, before moving in 2009 to the Orange group subsidiary dedicated to the Trading industry (Etrali), where he became in 2012 a COMEX member.

In 2018 Greg joined OVHcloud as Global Infrastructure Director, responsible for the planning, design and turnkey delivery of OVH worldwide Network and Datacenters infrastructure.

In late 2022, Greg was appointed Environmental Programs Director in charge of a broad range of projects designing and implementing OVHcloud’s environmental strategy.