How AI can solve its own energy crisis

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Varun Sivaram |

TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund

• September 2025

The AI revolution and our aging power grid are on a historic collision course, threatening to stall innovation and raise energy costs for everyone. Physicist and AI grid futurist Varun Sivaram reveals how we might flip this looming crisis into a once-in-a-generation opportunity — turning AI into a flexible user of power that actually strengthens the grid. Learn how this innovation could unlock new capacity for AI data centers while lowering costs and accelerating the energy future we’ve been waiting for.