The AI Forum: Scaling sustainable infrastructure

Demand for AI is outpacing infrastructure, energy supply and natural resources. Yet, AI may be the key to fast-tracking the renewable energy transition, generating sustainable investments, and galvanizing the climate action movement. The AI Forum at Climate Week NYC will convene senior leaders from business and government to examine the problems a growing AI market creates, as well as the innovative opportunities that data centers can bring. This session will explore the disparities between energy supply and demand, present new models for AI infrastructure, confront AI's thermal challenge and the emerging business models it's creating. This session will ask: • What urgent action is needed from policymakers and industry to align AI growth with climate commitments? • Can clean energy scale at the speed of AI demand, and what’s standing in the way? • Who is responsible for solving AI's physical infrastructure challenges, and who’s profiting from them? • How can data centers shift from being a drain on the system to an engine of the energy transition?