Latitude MediaPower is caught in AI’s doom loopPodcast
Power is caught in AI’s doom loop
Open Circuit takes stock of the backlash against data centers, and cites Arushi’s PCLR work in Texas among the solutions ready to deploy.
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Rewriting AI Power Policy with Arushi Sharma Frank
On Rebellionaire’s Energy Pod: why the words Prosperous Infrastructure belong together, and what that means for AI, the grid and markets.
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Energy: Powering the AI Economy
At KPMG’s 2026 Tech and Innovation Symposium: how energy constraints and innovation will set the speed, and the limits, of AI-driven growth.
WatchLatitude MediaData centers have a Texas-sized energy problemPodcast
Data centers have a Texas-sized energy problem
After Texas paused data centers, Jigar Shah notes that solutions from Arushi and others are on hold just as they were about to be tested.
ListenAurora Energy ResearchCan Data Centres Earn Their Power?Podcast
Can Data Centres Earn Their Power?
On Aurora Energy Research’s Energy Unplugged, Arushi and Oliver Kerr discuss why flexibility will decide how fast large loads connect.
ListenLatitude MediaThe off-grid data center fantasyPodcast
The off-grid data center fantasy
Voltus’s Tim Hade challenges the off-grid forecast for data centers and points to Arushi’s work in Texas as the state model to watch.
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Will New FERC Orders Unlock Electricity for Data Centers?
A CSIS panel on FERC’s June 2026 order to speed up power for large loads while protecting ratepayers.
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A Grid Worth Building
A short film from the Earthshot Foundation’s GridIron dialogue, in which Arushi describes the grid as a social grid.
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AI and the Energy Transition: Promise, Pressure, and Pathways Forward
At Indiaspora’s 2026 Climate Summit, Arushi, Varun Sivaram and Jigar Shah ask whether AI can grow without worsening the climate crisis.
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Can AI and Utilities Actually Work Together? With Arushi Sharma Frank
Rich Miller asks how the data center and power industries can work together on the AI buildout.
WatchTexas Energy & PowerHow AI Data Centers Can Go From Villain to Hero with Varun SivaramPodcast
How AI Data Centers Can Go From Villain to Hero with Varun Sivaram
Emerald AI’s Varun Sivaram tells Doug Lewin about the hero path for data centers, and credits Arushi’s ERCOT proposal for flexible large loads.
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How to turn AI into a power plant with Arushi Sharma Frank
On Energy Central’s Power Perspectives: how AI data centers can go from grid stressors to grid assets.
WatchHeatmap NewsLive From New York Climate Week: The AI and Electricity MomentPodcast
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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Forging the Future Grid: A Dialogue on Resilience, Flexibility, and AI
Walter Isaacson moderates a Tulane Future of Energy Forum panel with Arushi, Deanna Rodriguez of Entergy New Orleans and Tom Kuhn.
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Shortcast: None of the Above
Doug Lewin on how “all of the above” energy policy is turning into “none of the above,” pointing listeners to his conversation with Arushi on load flexibility.
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Texas: Power Surge or Power Splurge?
Gerard Reid and Laurent Segalen ask Arushi to make sense of Texas: fast load growth, low prices and a renewables boom.
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Shape Load Perfectly, Inject Energy Optimally with Sonnen’s Blake Richetta
Sonnen’s Blake Richetta on virtual power plants in Texas, crediting Arushi as one of the people who drove the state’s ADER program.
ListenLatitude MediaThe grid is smarter. Why aren’t we smarter about the grid?Podcast
The grid is smarter. Why aren’t we smarter about the grid?
Open Circuit asks what is holding back grid flexibility, and what it would take to use the smart devices already on the system.
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Texas’ Load Growth Challenges – And Opportunities, with Arushi Sharma Frank
Doug Lewin and Arushi on how flexibility, smarter planning and better incentives can make large load growth strengthen the ERCOT grid.
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Securing the Fundamentals of U.S. Competitiveness and Leadership in AI
A CSIS report launch on what U.S. leadership in AI depends on: energy, semiconductors and capital.
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Severe storms are fast-tracking grid resiliency projects
Brad Langley talks with Arushi about how living through grid failures is changing attitudes toward resilience projects.
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DERVOS ’24 Policy Panel
Four DER policy leaders on how to get new technology on the grid: Allison Clements, Marissa Gillett, Arushi and moderator Allison Bates Wannop.
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Integrating Distributed Energy Resilience Solutions with Arushi Sharma Frank
After Hurricane Beryl, Doug Lewin and Arushi look at how storage and distributed energy can make Texas more resilient.
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The Real Story of Texas VPP Policy
On the DER Task Force podcast, Arushi tells the inside story of how ERCOT’s virtual power plant program was forged.
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