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San Francisco Climate Week 2025: AI x Energy, Gridlocked or Grid Unlocked? - E3

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At San Francisco Climate Week 2025, E3 hosted a panel discussion at our headquarters in downtown SF on how artificial intelligence is reshaping electricity demand. The conversation brought together speakers from across the energy sector — electric utility, renewable and data center developers, and a ratepayer advocate — to talk through what this rapid load growth means for the grid, local communities, rates, and the climate. Panelists: The panel discussion focused on data center load growth: what happens when major new sources of demand emerge at the same time the grid is already under pressure from rapid clean energy deployment, legacy infrastructure, long interconnection timelines, and a politically uncertain federal context? We’re in the middle of a rare convergence. Some projections of load growth from AI and other compute-intensive applications are staggering in scale, and uncertain in both shape and timing. Meanwhile, utilities are navigating how to balance reliability with decar

San Francisco Climate Week 2025: AI x Energy, Gridlocked or Grid Unlocked? - E3 NEWS: Announcements , Large loads and data centers San Francisco Climate Week 2025: AI x Energy, Gridlocked or Grid Unlocked? NEWS: Announcements , Large loads and data centers San Francisco Climate Week 2025: AI x Energy, Gridlocked or Grid Unlocked? April 25, 2025 At San Francisco Climate Week 2025, E3 hosted a panel discussion at our headquarters in downtown SF on how artificial intelligence is reshaping electricity demand. The conversation brought together speakers from across the energy sector — electric utili

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