AI & Sustainability: follow the money! with Boris Gamazaychikov and Sasha Luccioni | #79
Presenters Gaël Boris Gamazaychikov Sasha Luccioni Source Green IO Podcast 🚀 The Billion-Dollar Question: Why AI’s Energy Crisis is Actually a Money Story The race to build the next generation of AI is expensive—$1 billion expensive. That is the current entry price for a hyperscale data center, the kind of massive facility consuming between 100 megawatts and 1 gigawatt of power. In a recent episode of Green.io, host Grez sat down with two titans of the sustainability world: Boris Gamazaychikov (former Head of Sustainability at Salesforce) and Dr. Sasha Luccioni (a world-renowned researcher in responsible AI). They moved past the usual carbon-focused conversation to follow the money, revealing why the AI gold rush is creating an energy bottleneck that might just reshape the entire tech industry. ...