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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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