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The episode discusses the impact of AI workloads on energy consumption and sustainability with Dan Versace from IDC.

AI workloads are forcing a reckoning. The mega data centers being built today will impact communities tenfold more than coal mines did during the Industrial Revolution, and most organizations still cannot answer a basic question: what is the carbon cost of their compute? In this episode of the Supply Chain Revolution podcast, Sheri Hinish sits down with Dan Versace, Senior Research Analyst for ESG Business Services at IDC, for a conversation about energy intelligence as the new operating discipline for AI, sustainability, and enterprise growth. Dan brings an uncommon origin story to corporate sustainability. He started in environmental science, studying the effects of large operations on watersheds in New Hampshire. He then moved to the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee to conduct invasive species and climate change research, where he spent a year working in a single four-square-mile plot. When he asked when they would move to the next area, the answer was ten years. That was the moment he decided to scale his impact, earned a sustainable innovation MBA from the University of Vermont, and joined IDC to lead their sustainability strategy and services research. Together, they…

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