PodcastSeptember 26, 2025Shift Key

Live From New York Climate Week: The AI and Electricity Moment

Recorded live at Heatmap House: Robinson Meyer asks how policymakers and companies should respond to AI’s rising power demand.

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In brief

AI is helping drive up electricity demand while energy costs rise and utilities struggle to adjust. In this special Shift Key episode, recorded live at Heatmap House during New York Climate Week, Robinson Meyer talks first with Representative Sean Casten about lowering electricity costs for consumers, then with Arushi about how data centers can flexibly adjust their power use to better serve the grid.

Key points

01Recorded in front of a live audience on September 24, 2025.
02Arushi’s conversation: data centers that flex their power use to support the grid.

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