AI offers enormous potential for a sustainable future, leveraging the vast amount of data in the energy system to optimize everything from battery management to changing energy markets to grid operation and planning. But this intellectual power comes at the cost of electrical power, and lots of it. The rapid growth of AI is straining the existing power grid. In response to the challenges presented by AI, the Bits & Watts Initiative is launching a new flagship program on Sustainably Powering AI. The new flagship program is focused on monitoring and reducing AI’s GHG emissions, as well as affordability, grid reliability, and grid interconnections.

The program kicked off by selecting six new projects in this area to support with seed grants. This webinar will introduce these projects at the cutting edge of Stanford research on the intersection of AI and sustainability.

Faculty Speakers

• Sara Achour, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
• Hunt Allcott, Environmental Social Sciences
• Juan Rivas-Davila, Electrical Engineering
• Meagan S. Mauter, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Khalid Osman, Civil and Environmental Engineering