AI companies are racing to secure power for their energy hungry data centres and it turns out renewables might be their only option in the short term. Environmentalists have been terrified about what AI and its energy use could mean for the climate. But after diving into the data, we flip the script on its head and ask: is AI the unexpected catalyst we never knew we needed to drive renewables and the new clean energy revolution?

We Discuss

- Why neither natural gas or nuclear are the answers to powering data centers in the short to medium term.

- Are moonshots like flying data centers to space or fusion power the answer?

- Why renewables are the only option available when it comes to quickly building out new power generation and what this means for building out the new clean economy.

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