The Data Center Boom Is Breaking the Old Rules of Power Regulation
AI data centers are exposing gaps in U.S. power regulation. Verified large-load governance—milestone-based forecasting, cost-causation tariffs, flexible service classes, operational visibility, and coordinated oversight—can reduce cost and reliability risk.
Morgan Bazilian
The Prompt Box Is Part of the Energy System: Why Sustainable AI Is Not Just a Data Center Problem
AI’s environmental impact depends not only on data centers, chips, and power supply, but on how people use it. Sustainable AI requires purposeful prompting, right-sized models, less low-value output, and better “demand architecture” for computation.
Ian Todreas
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The New Geography of AI Infrastructure
AI is making computation physical again: global AI capacity will follow not just chips and fiber, but power, water, cooling, permits, grid reliability, and the emerging Shadow Grid that turns energy infrastructure into the new map of AI advantage.
Brandon Owens
