Welcome to the AI, Energy and Climate podcast, a special series from the DSR Network hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Join us as we talk with leading experts to explore the intersection between these critical issues that will impact the future of each and every one of us.
This podcast is sponsored in part by NEDO, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, a national research and development agency in Japan.
For more information about the issues discussed in this show, please go to: https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap/ and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap.
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Power Prices, Data Centers and US-Canada Geopolitics (00:48:18)
In a high-profile speech, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently declared "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition." US government officials and many others interpreted the comment to...
AI, Innovation and the Power Sector: Sandy Grace (00:41:39)
Electric utilities are not generally known as hotbeds of innovation. What would it take for electric utilities to become more innovative? What impact would that have on the adoption of AI technologies...
Power Prices, Data Centers and the Bipartisan PJM Agreement: Peter Fox-Penner (00:53:12)
Increasing power prices are a hot topic in the United States. Last week the Trump administration, eight Democratic governors and five Republican governors announced a plan to protect households in mid...
A Net-Positive AI Energy Framework: Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes (00:34:44)
AI’s huge energy needs are getting enormous media attention. AI’s potential to make energy more secure, clean and affordable is getting less attention. What would it take for AI’s impact on the energy...
Data Center Water Use: Alexis Abramson, Julio Friedmann and Angela Yuan (00:48:47)
How significant is data center water use? Is it tiny in relation to other sectors, significant in some water-stressed regions, or both? Can new liquid-based cooling technologies which (perhaps counter...
Amory Lovins: Reflections of an AI Skeptic (00:49:38)
Amory Lovins has been a leading thinker on energy policy for more than 50 years. Several months ago he wrote an article with the provocative title "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity." As...
Jennifer Granholm: Reflections of an AI Optimist (00:38:53)
After a pause over the summer, we’re restarting the AI, Energy and Climate Podcast with a conversation between Jennifer Granholm, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Governor of Michigan, and host Dav...
Nick Chaset: Octopus Energy, Grid Flexibility and Data Center Load Growth (00:32:47)
Octopus Energy, a global technology and energy company, was founded in the UK 10 years ago with the goal of helping to transform electric utilities. It created Kraken, a cloud-based platform that help...
Damilola Ogunbiyi: AI, Energy Access and the Digital Divide (00:28:21)
More than a billion people in the world live in energy poverty, with little or no access to electricity. Can AI help put an end to energy poverty -- or could it make the problem worse? Is there a risk...
Arun Majumdar: AI, Energy and Education (00:31:18)
Arun Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University and previously served as Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (AR...
Jensen Huang: The Power of Intelligence Infrastructure (00:46:08)
Thirty-two years after Jensen Huang founded NVIDIA, the company is at the center of the AI revolution and the third-most valuable company in the world. Jensen -- as he is known throughout his company ...
Taylor Sparks and Colin McCormick: AI for Materials Innovation Part 2 (00:32:56)
Can AI help discover new materials, leading to dramatic breakthroughs in clean energy technologies? In Episode #1 of our deep dive on this topic, host David Sandalow explored the potential for breakth...
Taylor Sparks and Colin McCormick: AI for Materials Innovation Part 1 (00:37:32)
What could make dramatic, transformational changes in the fight against climate change? One answer -- breakthroughs in the materials sciences that result in even better and cheaper clean energy techno...
Laura Cozzi: IEA's Energy and AI Report (00:32:51)
On April 10, the International Energy Agency released a major report on energy and AI. The report explores topics including electricity demand for AI, how AI is being used in the energy sector, AI’s r...
Alp Kucukelbir: AI in Industry, Education and More (00:39:27)
Alp Kucukelbir serves as Chief Scientist at Fero Labs, teaches two courses on AI and climate change at Columbia University, and wrote several chapters in the AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap (...
Cynthia Rosenzweig and Kevin Karl: The Food System, AI and Climate Change (00:39:46)
The food system is responsible for almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, climate change is dramatically affecting the food system. Can AI tools help? Or do they create r...
Chris James Part 2: AI, Power Supplies and Innovation (00:31:19)
Join host David Sandalow and Chris James, CEO and Founder of Engine No. 1, as they discuss how to supply the rapidly growing demand for electric power in the United States, Engine No. 1's recent deals...
Chris James Part 1: AI Power Demand (00:35:17)
What forces are shaping the explosive growth in demand for electric power for AI? Do revenue projections for AI justify the massive scale of capital investment in data centers and electric power suppl...
Anne Bouverot: The Paris AI Action Summit and Beyond (00:30:08)
Special Envoy Anne Bouverot was in charge of organizing last month's AI Action Summit in Paris for French President Emmanuel Macron. Several dozen heads of state, many prominent business leaders and t...
Dan Loehr: Can LLM’s Help in the Fight Against Climate Change? (00:30:57)
Large language models are some of the most rapidly-adopted products in human history and are transforming workflows, education and much more. Can LLMs help in the fight against climate change? What ri...
Bill Brown: Are Data Centers the Killer App for Clean Tech? (00:39:56)
Bill Brown started two clean tech unicorns -- private companies worth more than $1 billion. Today he thinks data centers could be the "killer app" for cleantech, driving demand for clean energy. He al...
Bernhard Lorentz and Johannes Truby: AI's Energy and Environmental Footprint (00:35:51)
AI is the hot topic at this year's CERAWeek, where more than 10,000 people are gathering for one of the largest energy conferences of the year. A recent report by the Deloitte Center for Sustainable P...
Raj Kapoor: Climate Tech Investing and AI (00:43:53)
Raj Kapoor is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Climactic, a seed venture firm focused on climate tech. Join host David Sandalow as he and Kapoor discuss how AI can accelerate the deployment of ...
Julio Friedmann on AI, Climate Change and Carbon Capture (00:38:21)
Julio Friedmann -- the "Carbon Wrangler" -- is Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct and one of the world's leading experts on carbon capture and decarbonization more broadly. Host David Sandalow talks wit...
Reed Hundt on AI and Green Capital (00:47:46)
Reed Hundt helped shape the modern Internet as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission in the 1990s. He served as a board member at Intel for many years and founded the Coalition for Green Capi...
