Data centers can be good citizens. It’s why we’re partnering with Google and Nvidia to create the AI Energy Management Alliance

Two years ago, I asked the president of one of America’s largest public power utilities what worried him about the data centers lining up to connect to the grid. Each wanted the same thing, he replied: electricity delivered immediately, on an expensive grid overbuilt to guarantee power around the clock. He remarked that utilities and communities were asked to serve as “foot soldiers” of the AI buildout. The data centers, I thought, could serve as foot soldiers in their own way.