AI Is Infrastructure: Its Water, Power, and Governance Costs Can’t Be Deferred
About this episode
The episode discusses the physical infrastructure of AI and its implications for climate and sustainability.
Get in touch - leave me a message AI isn’t weightless. Every model, token, and workflow sits on land, water, power, heat, and governance choices. In this episode of Climate Confident, I’m joined by Sophia Mendelsohn, who leads SAP’s Global Sustainability Platform. We look at AI not as abstract software, but as physical infrastructure with real consequences for climate tech, decarbonisation, the energy transition, policy, and the businesses racing to use it. You’ll hear why data centres now si...
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