As AI models become more powerful, their appetite for energy is soaring — creating a high-stakes tension between technological progress and sustainability. 
In this episode, Lucia Tian, Google’s Head of Clean Energy & Decarbonization Technologies, helps us navigate the race to secure the carbon-free power that will fuel the next generation of intelligence.
We explore Google’s innovative approach to this challenge, from pioneering partnerships in advanced geothermal and next-gen nuclear, to using AI itself to stabilize and optimize the grid. Lucia paints a vivid picture of how these breakthroughs can accelerate a net-zero future while keeping the world’s most demanding computing systems online.
It’s a look at the energy system behind the AI revolution, and the people working to make it both powerful and sustainable.

<description>&lt;p&gt;As AI models become more powerful, their appetite for energy is soaring — creating a high-stakes tension between technological progress and sustainability. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Lucia Tian, Google’s Head of Clean Energy &amp; Decarbonization Technologies, helps us navigate the race to secure the carbon-free power that will fuel the next generation of intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We explore Google’s innovative approach to this challenge, from pioneering partnerships in advanced geothermal and next-gen nuclear, to using AI itself to stabilize and optimize the grid. Lucia paints a vivid picture of how these breakthroughs can accelerate a net-zero future while keeping the world’s most demanding computing systems online.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s a look at the energy system behind the AI revolution, and the people working to make it both powerful and sustainable.&lt;/p&gt;
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Lucia Tian, Google’s Head of Clean Energy & Decarbonization Technologies, unpacks the wide-ranging solutions that Google is embracing to run completely on carbon-free power by 2030.

The AI-Energy Nexus

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