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Energy Explained
Get the latest as our experts share their insights on global energy policy.
3 Coming Flashpoints in Climate Geopolitics
World leaders are meeting in New York this month at the request of the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to discuss the state of global ambition on climate change.
Podcasts
Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.
Is ‘Gold Standard’ for Energy Data in Trouble?
Everyone from energy executives to traders on Wall Street to policymakers across the US depend on accurate, timely information about energy production, consumption, and trends. At the heart...
Events
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September 22, 2025
• 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
est
Transforming Fashion’s Footprint: Innovation and Business
While various efforts continue to be made to estimate fashion’s environmental footprint, major gaps remain in how to decarbonize material production and reshape business practices.
Event
• International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027
Room/Area: 1501
Room/Area: 1501
Podcast
Jensen Huang: The Power of Intelligence Infrastructure
August 26, 2025
Guest
Jensen Huang
Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA
Jensen Huang, who founded NVIDIA in the early 1990s and built it into one of the most valuable companies in the world today, has thought a lot about AI’s impact on global energy and climate systems.
Jensen has much to say about AI’s potential benefits for energy innovation, power demand for AI, and a range of related topics, as David Sandalow — the inaugural fellow here at the Center on Global Energy Policy — learned when interviewing him.
Today, we’re bringing you their conversation in full from the AI Energy and Climate podcast which originally aired in April of this year.
Jensen and David explore why AI requires so much energy, but also how the technology can actually reduce energy consumption in applications from weather forecasting to manufacturing. Jensen describes innovations like silicon photonics that could save megawatts of power in data centers, and he shares a few ideas for using AI to improve efficiency in the industrial and power sectors. Moreover, he explains his vision for what he calls “AI factories” — and how they could be powered in ways that can reduce strain on the grid.
Jensen Huang is the president of NVIDIA, which he founded in 1993 to advance accelerated computing. In 1999, NVIDIA released the GeForce 256 which it called “the world’s first GPU”. It became a key enabler of PC gaming and computer graphics, and ignited the era of modern AI.
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Is ‘Gold Standard’ for Energy Data in Trouble?
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Before it invaded Ukraine, Russia was Europe's single largest supplier of imported natural gas. But now that the European Union is considering an outright ban on all Russian...
Columbia Energy Exchange Podcast
with Anne-Sophie Corbeau
, Tatiana Mitrova
and Erica Downs
• September 9, 2025
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The rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has reshaped America's climate and energy landscape by cutting tax incentives for wind and...
Trump’s High-Risk, High-Reward AI Action Plan
In July, the Trump administration released what it calls an AI action plan. In it, along with several executive orders, the White House lays out its vision for...
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, Jared Dunnmon
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US Exports and Domestic Gas Use Face Off for Incremental Supply
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Can AI Transform the Power Sector?
AI’s growing power demand has received enormous attention in recent months. In many places, the lack of power supplies is an important constraint on the growth of data centers to train and run AI models.
