Clean energy entrepreneur, 2024 TIME100 honoree, and former head of the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office.
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The Great Grid Bottleneck: AI Expansion vs. Energy Reality
The Great Grid Bottleneck: AI Expansion vs. Energy Reality
When trillion-dollar AI models hit the physical limits of our power grid, who pays the price?
The fastest-growing technology in human history is running directly into the world’s slowest-moving infrastructure: the electric grid. With interconnect queues stretching past four years, rising community resistance, and utilities passing billions in upgrade costs onto ratepayers, the current pace of AI expansion faces a hard physical ceiling.
On November 11, join clean infrastructure pioneer and former DOE Loan Programs Office Director Jigar Shah for a live, unscripted C[i] Forecast community Q&A. Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Shah has spent his career financing and scaling real-world energy infrastructure—from pioneering the solar PPA to overseeing $108 billion in federal loan authority.
In this session, he will tackle the looming grid crisis, the breakdown of traditional hyperscale economics, and how decentralized, low-latency compute can bypass the bottlenecks threatening tech growth.
Forecast is built around direct, candid interaction between the world’s leading innovators and a global community of leaders, researchers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and executives. RSVP now and submit your most pressing question for a chance to be selected to ask Jigar live during the session.
The fastest-growing technology in human history is running directly into the world’s slowest-moving infrastructure: the electric grid. With interconnect queues stretching past four years, rising community resistance, and utilities passing billions in upgrade costs onto ratepayers, the current pace of AI expansion faces a hard physical ceiling.
On November 11, join clean infrastructure pioneer and former DOE Loan Programs Office Director Jigar Shah for a live, unscripted C[i] Forecast community Q&A. Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Shah has spent his career financing and scaling real-world energy infrastructure—from pioneering the solar PPA to overseeing $108 billion in federal loan authority.
In this session, he will tackle the looming grid crisis, the breakdown of traditional hyperscale economics, and how decentralized, low-latency compute can bypass the bottlenecks threatening tech growth.
Forecast is built around direct, candid interaction between the world’s leading innovators and a global community of leaders, researchers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and executives. RSVP now and submit your most pressing question for a chance to be selected to ask Jigar live during the session.
