cloudd & bird CPU %?

Having installed yesterday mac OSX High Sierra the following "unwanted" programs: QuickLookSatellite and bird and cloudd fight for CPU usage. The ventilator runs continuous and the mac is frightning hot.

Are these fore mentioned programs a result of the software update? How to remove these programs because normal deleting does not work.

Yep-since turning on iCloud Drive, I'm seeing cloudd using 95%

Same issue, I read somewhere to sign out of iCloud and sign back in and try starting your shared content on your Mac rather than on iCloud via other devices. i.e. put your shared files on your Mac iCloud folder FIRST. I haven't tried it yet as when I go to sign out of iCloud it tells me my not all my files have been synchronized and some files (WHICH ONES????) will be deleted.

I noticed the same high cpu usage on my MacBook Pro late 2016 13" w/TB (16GB/1TB) . I have windows 10 VM using Fusion 8.5.3 as well (set up with 2 cores and 6GB RAM) and noticed that the vmware-vmx process was also consuming cpu (over 100%) at the same time as the cloudd and bird processes.

I turned off iCloud Drive and asked it to shut off immediately and not upload my documents to cloud when prompted. The cloudd process cpu usage went way down but my vm also went missing with "file not found". It was then I realized that I had installed the vm by migrating my existing windows pc while iCloud Drive was switched on, and somehow the vm had got installed in the icloud documents folder. So it was trying to upload my 200+GB vm to iCloud and keep it in sync.

I moved my vmwarevm file to another location and turned on iCloud Drive. Now even with the vm up all the time I find that vmware-vmx, cloudd and bird processes are all consuming very little cpu, cpu temperature is in the 70-95 degree range, the fans hardly turn on, and the battery lasts close to 9 hours.

See image (I use iStat Menus) - with 89% battery I still have over 8 hours left.

Hope this helps in case you have had similar problems..