The AI, Energy and Climate podcast explores questions about the extent to which AI can offer efficient solutions for climate change and the energy transition. Podcast host David Sandalow invites experts to discuss these solutions with him. AI, Energy and Climate launched its first episode at the end of February 2025. The podcast is produced by the DSR Network.
Podcast URL: https://thedsrnetwork.com/category/ai-energy-and-climate
Episode Guide
| No. | Episode | Title | Navigate to episode | Published | Description Excerpt | Tags |
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| 24 | 24 | A Net-Positive AI Energy Framework: Ginelle Greene-Dewasmes | 2025-12-11 | 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 … | ||
| 23 | 23 | Data Center Water Use: Alexis Abramson, Julio Friedmann and Angela Yuan | 2025-10-07 | 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 … | ||
| 22 | 22 | Amory Lovins: Reflections of an AI Skeptic | 2025-09-16 | 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 … | ||
| 21 | 21 | Jennifer Granholm: Reflections of an AI Optimist | 2025-09-10 | 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 … | ||
| 20 | 20 | Nick Chaset: Octopus Energy, Grid Flexibility and Data Center Load Growth | 2025-06-09 | 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. … | ||
| 19 | 19 | Damilola Ogunbiyi: AI, Energy Access and the Digital Divide | 2025-05-12 | 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 … | ||
| 18 | 18 | Arun Majumdar: AI, Energy and Education | 2025-05-05 | 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 … | ||
| 17 | 17 | Jensen Huang: The Power of Intelligence Infrastructure | 2025-04-28 | 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. … | ||
| 16 | 16 | Taylor Sparks and Colin McCormick: AI for Materials Innovation Part 2 | 2025-04-24 | 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 … | ||
| 15 | 15 | Taylor Sparks and Colin McCormick: AI for Materials Innovation Part 1 | 2025-04-21 | What could make dramatic, transformational changes in the fight against climate change? One answer — breakthroughs in the materials sciences that result in even better … | ||
| 14 | 14 | Laura Cozzi: IEA’s Energy and AI Report | 2025-04-14 | 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 … | ||
| 13 | 13 | Alp Kucukelbir: AI in Industry, Education, and More | 2025-04-07 | 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 … | ||
| 12 | 12 | Chris James Part 2: AI, Power Supplies and Innovation | 2025-04-03 | 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 … | ||
| 11 | 11 | Chris James Part 1: AI Power Demand | 2025-03-31 | 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 … | ||
| 10 | 10 | Anne Bouverot: The Paris AI Action Summit and Beyond | 2025-03-27 | 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 … | ||
| 9 | 9 | Anne Bouverot: The Paris AI Action Summit and Beyond | 2025-03-24 | 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 … | ||
| 8 | 8 | Dan Loehr: Can LLM’s Help in the Fight Against Climate Change? | 2025-03-20 | 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 … | ||
| 7 | 7 | Bill Brown: Are Data Centers the Killer App for Clean Tech? | 2025-03-17 | Bill Brown started two clean tech unicorns — private companies worth more than $1 billion. Today he thinks data centers could be the “killer app” … | ||
| 6 | 6 | Bernhard Lorentz and Johannes Truby: AI’s Energy and Environmental Footprint | 2025-03-13 | 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 … | ||
| 5 | 5 | Raj Kapoor: Climate Tech Investing and AI | 2025-03-10 | 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 … | ||
| 4 | 4 | Julio Friedmann on AI, Climate Change and Carbon Capture | 2025-03-06 | Julio Friedmann — the “Carbon Wrangler” — is Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct and one of the world’s leading experts on carbon capture and decarbonization … | ||
| 3 | 3 | Reed Hundt on AI and Green Capital | 2025-03-04 | 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 … | ||
| 2 | 2 | Michael Liebreich on AI, Data Centers and Energy: Past, Present and Future | 2025-02-27 | How much electric power will AI need in the years ahead? How can that demand be met cheaply and sustainably? What can we learn from … | ||
| 1 | 1 | Harnessing AI to Fight Climate Change | 2025-02-24 | Welcome to the AI, Energy and Climate Podcast! On the inaugural episode of this new series, host David Sandalow is joined by Colin McCormick and … |