The Utility-AI Leadership Edge Part II: The Utility CIO’s Mandate in the Age of AI
Utility CIOs face a structural shift as advanced intelligence moves into grid operations. The mandate is to govern, scale, and integrate it responsibly—unlocking flexibility, resilience, and efficiency while managing operational, cyber, and regulatory risk.
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
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